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author | Hans Plum <hans.plum@intevation.de> |
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date | Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:37:51 +0000 |
parents | 5e4bc24ea438 |
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package de.intevation.artifacts; import java.io.Serializable; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Node; /** * Interface of an artifact producing factory. * * @author Sascha L. Teichmann (sascha.teichmann@intevation.de) */ public interface ArtifactFactory extends Serializable { /** * The short name of this factory. * @return the name of this factory. */ String getName(); /** * Description of this factory. * @return description of the factory. */ String getDescription(); /** * Create a new artifact of certain type, given a general purpose context and * an identifier. * @param context a context from the ArtifactDatabase. * @param identifier unique identifer for the new artifact * @return a new {@linkplain de.intevation.artifacts.Artifact Artifact} */ Artifact createArtifact(String identifier, Object context); /** * Setup the factory with a given configuration * @param config the configuration * @param factoryNode the ConfigurationNode of this Factory */ void setup(Document config, Node factoryNode); /** * Tells how long an artifact should survive if it is * not touched. This is put in the factory because * life time is nothing a artifact should handle it self. * This method is only called once directly after the * artifact is created. * @param artifact The artifact to be rated. * @param context The global context. * return time to live in ms. null means eternal. */ Long timeToLiveUntouched(Artifact artifact, Object context); ArtifactSerializer getSerializer(); } // vim:set ts=4 sw=4 si et sta sts=4 fenc=utf8: