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Added mechanism to create an share a global context in the artifact database. artifacts/trunk@13 c6561f87-3c4e-4783-a992-168aeb5c3f6f
author Sascha L. Teichmann <sascha.teichmann@intevation.de>
date Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:32:09 +0000
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1 package de.intevation.artifacts;
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3 /**
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4 * Interface of an artifact managing database.
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5 *
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6 * @author Sascha L. Teichmann (sascha.teichmann@intevation.de)
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7 */
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8 public interface ArtifactDatabase
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9 {
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10 /**
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11 * List of artifact factories names accessible through the database.
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12 * @return names of the factories.
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14 String [] getArtifactFactoryNames();
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16 /**
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17 * Look up an artifact by its identifier.
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18 * @return the artifact. null if the artifact is not found.
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19 */
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20 Artifact getArtifact(String identifier);
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22 /**
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23 * Creates new artifact with a certain factory.
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24 * @param factoryName the name of the factory. Name out of {@link #getArtifactFactoryNames() getArtifactFactoryNames()}.
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25 */
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26 Artifact createArtifactWithFactory(String factoryName);
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29 /**
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30 * Returns the global artifact runtime context.
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31 * @return the runtime context
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32 */
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33 Object getArtifactContext();
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34 }
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35 // vim:set ts=4 sw=4 si et sta sts=4 fenc=utf8:
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