IPreservationActionRegistry.java

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package eu.scape_project.planning.services.action;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
import java.util.List;

import javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException;

import eu.scape_project.planning.model.FormatInfo;
import eu.scape_project.planning.model.PlatoException;
import eu.scape_project.planning.services.IServiceInfo;

/**
 * Interface for preservation action registries supported by plato.
 * 
 * @author Michael Kraxner
 */
public interface IPreservationActionRegistry {
    /**
     * Connects the registry to the remote endpoint.
     * 
     * @param URL
     * @throws ServiceException
     * @throws MalformedURLException
     */
    void connect(String URL) throws ServiceException, MalformedURLException;

    /**
     * returns a list of preservation actions which can handle objects of the
     * given sourceFormat.
     * 
     * @param sourceFormat
     * @return null, if nothing is found
     * @throws RemoteException
     */
    List<IServiceInfo> getAvailableActions(FormatInfo sourceFormat) throws PlatoException;

    String getLastInfo();

    String getToolIdentifier(String url);

    String getToolParameters(String url);

}