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| ApplicationTool |
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| 1.0;1 |
| 1 | package org.apache.turbine.services.pull; | |
| 2 | ||
| 3 | ||
| 4 | /* | |
| 5 | * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one | |
| 6 | * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file | |
| 7 | * distributed with this work for additional information | |
| 8 | * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file | |
| 9 | * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the | |
| 10 | * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance | |
| 11 | * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at | |
| 12 | * | |
| 13 | * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 | |
| 14 | * | |
| 15 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, | |
| 16 | * software distributed under the License is distributed on an | |
| 17 | * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY | |
| 18 | * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the | |
| 19 | * specific language governing permissions and limitations | |
| 20 | * under the License. | |
| 21 | */ | |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | ||
| 24 | /** | |
| 25 | * Tools that go into the Toolbox should implement this interface. | |
| 26 | * | |
| 27 | * @author <a href="mailto:jvanzyl@periapt.com">Jason van Zyl</a> | |
| 28 | * @version $Id: ApplicationTool.java 615328 2008-01-25 20:25:05Z tv $ | |
| 29 | */ | |
| 30 | public interface ApplicationTool | |
| 31 | { | |
| 32 | /** | |
| 33 | * Initialize the application tool. The data parameter holds a different | |
| 34 | * type depending on how the tool is being instantiated: | |
| 35 | * <ul> | |
| 36 | * <li>For global tools data will be null</li> | |
| 37 | * <li>For request tools data will be of type RunData</li> | |
| 38 | * <li>For session and authorized tools data will be of type User</li> | |
| 39 | * </ul> | |
| 40 | * <p> | |
| 41 | * It is possible that session scope tools will be initialized with a null | |
| 42 | * <code>User</code> object. This happens when the first request on a | |
| 43 | * session happens to the be login action. | |
| 44 | * <p> | |
| 45 | * If your session tool depends on having a <code>User</code> object, you | |
| 46 | * should look at implementing the {@link RunDataApplicationTool} interface | |
| 47 | * instead. | |
| 48 | * | |
| 49 | * @param data initialization data | |
| 50 | */ | |
| 51 | void init(Object data); | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | /** | |
| 54 | * Refresh the application tool. This is | |
| 55 | * necessary for development work where you | |
| 56 | * probably want the tool to refresh itself | |
| 57 | * if it is using configuration information | |
| 58 | * that is typically cached after initialization | |
| 59 | */ | |
| 60 | void refresh(); | |
| 61 | } |