Importer.java

/**
 * Copyright (C) 2015 Envidatec GmbH <info@envidatec.com>
 *
 * This file is part of JECommons.
 *
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package org.jevis.commons.driver;

import java.util.List;
import org.jevis.api.JEVisObject;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;

/**
 * The interface for the Importer. Each Importer object represents an importer
 * object in the JEVis System. This class is optional. If no import object is
 * given, the system uses the JEVisImporter, who imports the results into the
 * JEVis System by default.
 *
 * @author Broder
 */
public interface Importer {

    /**
     * Imports the results into a given target.
     *
     * @param result
     * @return
     */
    public DateTime importResult(List<Result> result);

    /**
     * Initialize the importer.
     *
     * @param dataSource
     */
    public void initialize(JEVisObject dataSource);

    public Object getLatestDatapoint();

    /**
     * Gets the date of the latest imported data point. This information is
     * needed to set the lastreadout.
     *
     * @return
     */
//    public DateTime getLatestDatapoint();

}