/*
* 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.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
/*
* Created on Oct 12, 2005
*
*/
package org.kuali.kfs.gl.batch.service;
import java.util.Date;
import org.kuali.kfs.gl.businessobject.Transaction;
import org.kuali.kfs.sys.service.ReportWriterService;
/**
* An interface that delcares the methods that the Poster needs to post a transaction.
*/
public interface PostTransaction {
/**
* Post a single transaction to a single destination.
*
* @param t Transaction to post
* @param mode PosterService.MODE_ENTRIES or PosterService.MODE_REVERSAL
* @param postDate post date/time
* @param posterReportWriterService the writer service where the poster is writing its report
* @return The letter I if a row was inserted, U updated, D deleted. The string can have multiple codes.
*/
public String post(Transaction t, int mode, Date postDate, ReportWriterService posterReportWriterService);
/**
* The name of the destination for the post (ie, the database table name where resultant records will be posted)
*
* @return name
*/
public String getDestinationName();
}