1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2015 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,
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.kew.validation;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.kew.rule.RuleValidationAttribute;
19
20 /**
21 * Service which mediates RuleValidationAttribute lookup and invocation.
22 * Determines appropriate (possibly remote) {@link org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.validation.RuleValidationAttributeExporterService} endpoint and
23 * returns a wrapper which delegates to it.
24 *
25 * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.rule.RuleValidationAttribute
26 * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.validation.RuleValidationAttributeExporterService
27 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
28 */
29 public interface RuleValidationAttributeResolver {
30 /**
31 * Resolves the RuleValidationAttribute by name, possibly resulting in delegation over the KSB.
32 *
33 * @return a RuleValidationAttribute suitable (only) for invocation of #validate
34 */
35 public RuleValidationAttribute resolveRuleValidationAttribute(String attributeName, String applicationId) throws Exception;
36 }