/**Copyright 2010 Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mBH
*
* This file is part of easyrec.
*
* easyrec is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* easyrec 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 General Public License for more details.
*
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* along with easyrec. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.easyrec.store.thirdparty;
import org.easyrec.model.core.ItemVO;
/**
* This interface provides methods to retrieve additional metadata from a third party database.
* <p/>
* <p><b>Company: </b>
* SAT, Research Studios Austria</p>
* <p/>
* <p><b>Copyright: </b>
* (c) 2007</p>
* <p/>
* <p><b>last modified:</b><br/>
* $Author: dmann $<br/>
* $Date: 2011-12-20 15:22:22 +0100 (Di, 20 Dez 2011) $<br/>
* $Revision: 18685 $</p>
*
* @author Roman Cerny
*/
public interface ThirdPartyAccess {
/**
* Returns a human readable description of the given item.
* <p/>
* Note: This method normally queries a third party database.
*
* @param item the item of which a human readable description should be retrieved
* @return a human readable description of the given item
*/
public String getItemRepresentation(ItemVO<Integer, String> item);
}