1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2013 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.kew.plugin;
17
18 /**
19 * An interface representing an Entity that can be reloaded. Calls to reload should only be executed if
20 * this Reloadable has flagged itself as reloadable according to the isReloadable() method.
21 *
22 * <p>If invocations of isReloadable() return false then calls to reload() should be
23 * no-ops.
24 *
25 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
26 */
27 public interface Reloadable {
28
29 /**
30 * Indicates whether or not this Reloadable currently supports being reloaded.
31 * If this method returns false then calls to reload() are effectively no-ops.
32 *
33 * @return true if this Reloadable can be reloaded, false otherwise
34 */
35 public boolean isReloadable();
36
37 public boolean isReloadNeeded();
38
39 /**
40 * Reloads the Reloadable. If isReloadable() returns false then this method
41 * should be a no-op.
42 */
43 public void reload() throws Exception;
44
45 }