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 */
016package 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 */
025public 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}