/*
* Copyright (C) 2012, Katy Hilgenberg.
* Special acknowledgments to: Knowledge & Data Engineering Group, University of Kassel (http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de).
* Contact: sdcf@cs.uni-kassel.de
*
* This file is part of the SDCFramework (Sensor Data Collection Framework) project.
*
* The SDCFramework is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* The SDCFramework is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with the SDCFramework. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package de.unikassel.android.sdcframework.transmission.facade;
import java.net.URL;
import de.unikassel.android.sdcframework.preferences.facade.TransmissionProtocolConfiguration;
import android.content.Context;
/**
* Interface for protocol strategy types which do implement a special transfer
* protocol.
*
* @see de.unikassel.android.sdcframework.transmission.BasicAuthHttpProtocol
* @author Katy Hilgenberg
*
*/
public interface ProtocolStrategy
extends UpdatableTransmissionComponent<TransmissionProtocolConfiguration>
{
/**
* Does upload the current file set
*
* @return true if successful, flase otherwise
*/
public abstract boolean uploadFile();
/**
* Getter for the application context
*
* @return the application context
*/
public abstract Context getContext();
/**
* Getter for the URL
*
* @return the URL
*/
public abstract URL getURL();
/**
* Getter for the last error
*
* @return the last error description or null if no error did occur
*/
public abstract String getLastError();
/**
* Setter for the last error
*
* @param lastError
* the laste error to set
*/
public abstract void setLastError( String lastError );
/**
* Setter for the file to upload
*
* @param fileName
* the name of the file to upload
*/
public abstract void setFileName( String fileName );
/**
* Getter for name of the file to upload
*
* @return the file to upload
*/
public abstract String getFileName();
/**
* Getter for the host
*
* @return the host if url is valid, otherwise null
*/
public abstract String getHost();
}