ActionMessage.java

/**
 * Copyright 2008 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package edu.unc.lib.dl.message;

import java.io.Serializable;

public interface ActionMessage extends Serializable {
	/**
	 * Returns the identifier for this message
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getMessageID();

	/**
	 * Returns the target of this message.
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getTargetID();

	/**
	 * Returns the label for the target of this message
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getTargetLabel();
	
	public void setTargetLabel(String targetLabel);

	/**
	 * Returns the unqualified action to be performed on the target
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getAction();

	/**
	 * Returns the namespace of the action to be performed on the target
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getNamespace();

	/**
	 * Returns the action name qualified by its namespace
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getQualifiedAction();

	/**
	 * Returns the time at which this message was created.
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	public long getTimeCreated();
}