RecordHandler.java

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package org.opencastproject.oaipmh.harvester;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

/**
 * Pluggable component to handle OAI-PMH records harvested by the {@link OaiPmhHarvester}.
 */
public interface RecordHandler {

  /**
   * Return the OAI-PMH metadata prefix this handler deals with.
   * See <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html#MetadataNamespaces">this section</a>
   * of the OAI-PMH specification for more details.
   */
  String getMetadataPrefix();

  /**
   * Handle an OAI-PMH record.
   * See section <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html#Record">2.5 Record</a> of the
   * OAI-PMH specification.
   */
  void handle(Node record);
}