001    /**
002     * Copyright 2005-2014 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.ksb.api.messaging;
017    
018    /**
019     * ResourceFacade interface.  RESTful services can be registered with more than one resource class,
020     * and the ResourceFacade allows you to select the resource class by resource name
021     * (the URI sub-path past the service root) or resource class.
022     *
023     * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
024     */
025    public interface ResourceFacade {
026    
027            /**
028             * get the resource corresponding to the given sub-path
029             */
030            public <R> R getResource(String resourceName);
031    
032            /**
033             * get the resource for the provided type
034             */
035            public <R> R getResource(Class<R> resourceClass);
036    
037            public boolean isSingleResourceService();
038    
039    }