/**
* DataCleaner (community edition)
* Copyright (C) 2014 Neopost - Customer Information Management
*
* This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
* copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
* Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* 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 Lesser General Public License
* for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this distribution; if not, write to:
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
* Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
package org.datacleaner.database;
import java.io.Serializable;
/**
* An object that provides information about a JDBC database, which will aid the
* user in selecting correct driver classes, filling out the connection URL etc.
*/
public interface DatabaseDriverDescriptor extends Serializable, Comparable<DatabaseDriverDescriptor> {
String getDisplayName();
String getIconImagePath();
String getDriverClassName();
/**
* @return an array of URLs for the files needed to download to use this
* driver. Typically this will just be a single file (a driver JAR),
* but in some cases the driver has additional dependencies, which
* also needs to be downloaded.
*/
String[] getDownloadUrls();
String[] getConnectionUrlTemplates();
}