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.krad.data.provider;
17
18 import java.util.List;
19
20 /**
21 * Registry of KRAD Data Providers.
22 *
23 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
24 */
25 public interface ProviderRegistry {
26
27 /**
28 * Register a Provider.
29 *
30 * @param provider the provider to register
31 */
32 void registerProvider(Provider provider);
33
34 /**
35 * Unregister a Provider if it exists.
36 *
37 * @param provider the provider to unregister
38 *
39 * @return true if provider was unregistered
40 */
41 boolean unregisterProvider(Provider provider);
42
43 /**
44 * Obtain list of all registered providers.
45 *
46 * @return non-null and immutable list of all registered providers
47 */
48 List<Provider> getProviders();
49
50 /**
51 * Obtain list of all registered providers of a given type.
52 *
53 * @param providerType the provider type
54 *
55 * @return non-null and immutable list of all registered providers of a given type
56 */
57 List<Provider> getProvidersForType(Class<? extends Provider> providerType);
58
59 /**
60 * Obtain list of all registered MetadataProviders
61 *
62 * @return non-null and immutable list of all registered MetadataProviders
63 */
64 List<MetadataProvider> getMetadataProviders();
65
66 /**
67 * Obtain the first MetadataProvider which handles the gives type.
68 *
69 * @return the MetadataProvider which handles the given type, or null if none could be found
70 */
71 MetadataProvider getMetadataProvider(Class<?> type);
72
73 /**
74 * Return the persistence provider for a given type.
75 *
76 * @param type the data object type
77 *
78 * @return persistence provider for given type, or null if no matching provider is registered
79 */
80 PersistenceProvider getPersistenceProvider(Class<?> type);
81
82 }