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package org.opends.quicksetup;

import org.opends.quicksetup.event.ProgressNotifier;
import org.opends.quicksetup.util.ProgressMessageFormatter;

/**
 * Represents a quick setup CLI application.
 */
public interface CliApplication extends ProgressNotifier, Runnable {

  /**
   * Creates a set of user data from command line arguments and installation
   * status.
   * @param launcher that launched this application
   * @return UserData object populated to reflect the input args and status
   * @throws UserDataException if something is wrong with the data provided
   * by the user
   * @throws ApplicationException if there is an application specific problem
   */
  UserData createUserData(Launcher launcher)
          throws UserDataException, ApplicationException;

  /**
   * Gets the user data this application will use when running.
   * @return UserData to use when running
   */
  UserData getUserData();


  /**
   * Sets the user data this application will use when running.
   * @param userData UserData to use when running
   */
  void setUserData(UserData userData);

  /**
   * Sets the formatter that will be used to format messages.
   * @param formatter ProgressMessageFormatter used to format messages
   */
  void setProgressMessageFormatter(ProgressMessageFormatter formatter);

  /**
   * Gets any exception that happened while this application was running.
   * A null value returned from this method indicates that the execution
   * of the CLI program is not complete or was successful.
   * @return an exception that happened while the CLI was running
   */
  ApplicationException getRunError();

  /**
   * Gets the return code to return to the console.
   * @return return code to return;  if null the return code indicated in the
   *         error returned by <code>getRunError</code> will be used.
   */
  ReturnCode getReturnCode();
}