/* (c) 2014 Open Source Geospatial Foundation - all rights reserved
* (c) 2001 - 2013 OpenPlans
* This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 license, available at the root
* application directory.
*/
package org.geoserver.wps.resource;
/**
* A resource managed during a WPS process execution. It can be anything, from a feature type, a
* file, a directory, an embedded database table. The interface makes sure the resource can be
* cleaned up when the request execution is terminated, or, if the process is asynchronous, when the
* results availability expires.
*
* Normally all resources linked to a process have to be kept around as long as one of the resulting
* feature collections or coverages is eligible to be collected: there is no way to know if the
* processes are computing the result once, or if they are generating streaming outputs that will
* recompute the results every time they are queried (the JAI efficient case for coverages would be
* the latter)
*
* @author Andrea Aime - OpenGeo
*
*/
public interface WPSResource {
/**
* Deletes the resource permanently
*/
void delete() throws Exception;
/**
* The resource name, used for error reporting
*
*/
String getName();
}