/*
* Copyright (c) 2012 Data Harmonisation Panel
*
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made
* available 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.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this distribution. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*
* Contributors:
* HUMBOLDT EU Integrated Project #030962
* Data Harmonisation Panel <http://www.dhpanel.eu>
*/
package eu.esdihumboldt.hale.ui.views.tasks.model;
import eu.esdihumboldt.hale.schemaprovider.model.Definition;
/**
* Task type registry interface
*
* @author Simon Templer
* @partner 01 / Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research
* @version $Id$
*/
public interface TaskRegistry {
/**
* Register a task type
*
* @param type the task type
*
* @throws IllegalStateException if a type with the same type name already
* exists
*/
public void registerType(TaskType type) throws IllegalStateException;
/**
* Get the task type with the given name
*
* @param typeName the task type name
*
* @return the task type or <code>null</code> if no type with the given name
* is registered
*/
public TaskType getType(String typeName);
/**
* Create a task for the given definitions. The task factory must check if
* input is valid before creating a task
*
* @param serviceProvider the service provider
* @param typeName the type name of the task
* @param definitions the definitions
*
* @return the created task or <code>null</code> if no task for the given
* definitions was created
*/
public Task createTask(ServiceProvider serviceProvider, String typeName, Definition... definitions);
}