/*
* The Kuali Financial System, a comprehensive financial management system for higher education.
*
* Copyright 2005-2014 The Kuali Foundation
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
* License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program 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 Affero General Public License for more details.
*
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* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.kuali.kfs.gl.batch.service;
import org.kuali.kfs.sys.batch.InitiateDirectory;
/**
* The enterprise feeder is a component that feeds in origin entries from an external data source
*/
public interface EnterpriseFeederService extends InitiateDirectory{
public static final String DONE_FILE_SUFFIX = ".done";
public static final String DATA_FILE_SUFFIX = ".data";
public static final String RECON_FILE_SUFFIX = ".recon";
/**
* This method does the feeding
*
* @param processName this merely identifies the process executing the feed. It will be used to build any error messages, but
* computationally it should be ignored.
* @param performNotifications whether notifications should be sent out
*/
public void feed(String processName, boolean performNotifications);
/**
* Returns the directory name from which files are loaded.
* @return the staging directory name
*/
public String getDirectoryName();
}