MessagePersister.java

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package org.apache.streams.monitoring.persist;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Interface to define how we persist messages (JMX/monitoring related).
 */
public interface MessagePersister {

  /**
   * Given a list of messages, persist them out through whatever appropriate
   * broadcast mechanism (HTTP request, SLF4J log, etc.).
   * @param messages List of String messages
   * @return statusCode represents whether or not the persist was successful
   */
  int persistMessages(List<String> messages);
}