IOrchestratorPlugin.java

package alien4cloud.orchestrators.plugin;

import java.util.List;

import alien4cloud.orchestrators.plugin.model.PluginArchive;
import alien4cloud.paas.IConfigurablePaaSProvider;
import alien4cloud.paas.IPaaSProvider;

/**
 * Interface used to communicate with an orchestrator.
 */
public interface IOrchestratorPlugin<T> extends IConfigurablePaaSProvider<T>, IPaaSProvider {
    /**
     * Return a configurator instance for a given location type.
     * 
     * @param locationType The type of location for which to get a location configurator.
     * @return The configurator plugin.
     */
    ILocationConfiguratorPlugin getConfigurator(String locationType);

    /**
     * Get archives provided by the plugin. They contains all the types that are used to configure the plugin or that the plugin can eventually support.
     * Note that theses archives should not contains any topologies as they will be ignored by alien.
     *
     * @return The archives provided by the plugin.
     */
    List<PluginArchive> pluginArchives();
}