/*
 * 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
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 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 * 
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 */
package org.kuali.kfs.sys.service;

import java.util.List;

import org.kuali.kfs.sys.businessobject.ElectronicPaymentClaim;
import org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.Person;

/**
 * A set of methods that help the ElectronicPaymentClaimingService turn a list of ElectronicPaymentClaim records into a document
 * used to claim those records.
 * 
 * @see org.kuali.kfs.sys.service.ElectronicPaymentClaimingService
 * @see org.kuali.kfs.sys.businessobject.ElectronicPaymentClaim
 */
public interface ElectronicPaymentClaimingDocumentGenerationStrategy {

    /**
     * Returns the label which will identify the claiming document to users
     * 
     * @return a label
     */
    public abstract String getDocumentLabel();

    /**
     * get the workflow document type code of the claiming document
     * 
     * @return the workflow document type code of the claiming document
     */
    public String getClaimingDocumentWorkflowDocumentType();

    /**
     * Determines if the given user can use the document wrapped by this ElectronicPaymentClaimingDocumentGenerationStrategy
     * implementaton to claim any ElectronicPaymentClaim records
     * 
     * @param claimingUser the user attempting to claim ElectronicPaymentClaim records with a document
     * @return true if the user can use this kind of document to claim ElectronicPaymentClaim records, false otherwise
     */
    public abstract boolean userMayUseToClaim(Person claimingUser);

    /**
     * Creates a document to claim a given list of ElectronicPaymentClaim records.
     * 
     * @param electronicPayments a List of ElectronicPaymentClaim records
     * @param user the user doing the claiming
     * @return the absolute URL that should be redirected to, so that the user can edit the document
     */
    public abstract String createDocumentFromElectronicPayments(List<ElectronicPaymentClaim> electronicPayments, Person user);

    /**
     * Determines whether the given document number would be considered valid by the system that the document this strategy
     * interacts with
     * 
     * @param referenceDocumentNumber the document number reference to validate
     * @return true if the document reference is considered valid, false otherwise
     */
    public abstract boolean isDocumentReferenceValid(String referenceDocumentNumber);
}