taxeditor-store/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/taxeditor/operations/IPostOperationEnabled.java

   1 /**
   2 * Copyright (C) 2007 EDIT
   3 * European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
   4 * http://www.e-taxonomy.eu
   5 *
   6 * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1
   7 * See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.
   8 */
   9
  10 package eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.operations;
  11
  12 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.common.CdmBase;
  13
  14
  15
  16 /**
  17  * Implementors may register to operations. The postOperation method will
  18  * get called after any post operation
  19  *
  20  * @author n.hoffmann
  21  * @created 24.03.2009
  22  * @version 1.0
  23  */
  24 public interface IPostOperationEnabled {
  25
  26         /**
  27          * This method will be called after executing an operation.
  28          * If operation created a new object and the registrar has to know about the
  29          * oBject it should be passed to the registrar
  30          *
  31          * @param objectAffectedByOperation an occasional newly created object. May be <code>null</code>
  32          * @return true the method executed succesfully
  33          */
  34         public boolean postOperation(CdmBase objectAffectedByOperation);
  35
  36         /**
  37          * This method will get called after the execution took place and occasional cleanups
  38          * were performed. This is typically the last thing to happen.
  39          *
  40          * @return a boolean.
  41          */
  42         public boolean onComplete();
  43 }