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view artifacts/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifacts/ArtifactFactory.java @ 245:def3daabc5b5
Added a listener to be called if a call context was created and closed
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author | Sascha L. Teichmann <sascha.teichmann@intevation.de> |
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date | Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:19:12 +0000 |
parents | c030895edfcb |
children | a367a0d011af |
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/* * Copyright (c) 2010 by Intevation GmbH * * This program is free software under the LGPL (>=v2.1) * Read the file LGPL.txt coming with the software for details * or visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ if it does not exist. */ 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 <a href="mailto:sascha.teichmann@intevation.de">Sascha L. Teichmann</a> */ 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 * @param data the data containing more details for the setup of an Artifact. * @return a new {@linkplain de.intevation.artifacts.Artifact Artifact} */ Artifact createArtifact(String identifier, Object context, Document data); /** * 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 an 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); /** * Returns the serializer used to store the artifacts. * @return The Serializer */ ArtifactSerializer getSerializer(); } // vim:set ts=4 sw=4 si et sta sts=4 fenc=utf8 :