001    /**
002     * Copyright 2005-2013 The Kuali Foundation
003     *
004     * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     *
008     * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009     *
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    package org.kuali.rice.kew.rule;
017    
018    import java.util.List;
019    
020    import org.kuali.rice.kew.engine.RouteContext;
021    
022    
023    /**
024     * An attribute which can be used to filter a List of rules prior to evaluation
025     * by the rules engine.
026     * 
027     * @see FlexRM
028     *
029     * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
030     */
031    public interface MassRuleAttribute {
032        
033        public List<org.kuali.rice.kew.api.rule.Rule> filterNonMatchingRules(RouteContext routeContext, List<org.kuali.rice.kew.api.rule.Rule> rules);
034    
035    }