Endpoint.java

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package org.talend.esb.servicelocator.client;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.transform.Result;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

/**
 * 
 * An <code>EndpointProvider</code> provides the necessary information to create an entry in the
 * service locator for an endpoint.
 *
 */
public interface Endpoint {

    /**
     * Return the name of the service the endpoint belongs to
     *
     * @return name of the service, must not be <code>null</code>.
     */
    QName getServiceName();

    /**
     * Return the address of the endpoint.
     *
     * @return url of the endpoint, must not be <code>null</code>.
     */
    String getAddress();

    BindingType getBinding();

    TransportType getTransport();

    SLProperties getProperties();

    void writeEndpointReferenceTo(Result result, PropertiesTransformer transformer)
        throws ServiceLocatorException;

    /**
     * Add a WS-Addressing endpoint reference to the given XML tree.
     * 
     * @param parent the node where to add the endpoint reference, is not null and either an 
     * {@link org.w3c.dom.Element} or a {@link org.w3c.dom.Document}. 
     */
    @Deprecated
    void addEndpointReference(Node parent) throws ServiceLocatorException;

    interface PropertiesTransformer {

        void writePropertiesTo(SLProperties props, Result result);

    }

}