org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.model

Interface ConditionalPerformer

All Superinterfaces:

ConditionalPerformerInfo, ModelElement, ModelParticipant, ModelParticipantInfo, Participant, ParticipantInfo, org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.model.QualifiedConditionalPerformerInfo, org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.model.QualifiedModelParticipantInfo, Serializable

public interface ConditionalPerformer
extends ModelParticipant, org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.model.QualifiedConditionalPerformerInfo

A client view of a workflow conditional performer. Conditional performers allows to use late bound participant associations, i.e. deriving the concrete participant from process state.

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

rsauer

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.model.ModelParticipantInfo

ADMINISTRATOR

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ParticipantType	getPerformerKind() Retrieves the kind of participant this conditional performer is supposed to resolve to at runtime.
Participant	getResolvedPerformer() Retrieves the performer this conditional performer resolves to at runtime.

Methods inherited from interface org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.model.ModelParticipant

getAllSuperOrganizations, getElementOID, getModelOID, getNamespace

Methods inherited from interface org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.model.Participant

getAllAttributes, getAttribute, getPartitionId, getPartitionOID

Methods inherited from interface org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.model.ModelElement

getDescription, getId, getName, getQualifiedId

Methods inherited from interface org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.model.QualifiedModelParticipantInfo

getQualifiedId

Methods inherited from interface org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.model.ModelParticipantInfo

definesDepartmentScope, getDepartment, getRuntimeElementOID, isDepartmentScoped

Methods inherited from interface org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.model.ParticipantInfo

getId, getName

Method Detail

getPerformerKind

ParticipantType getPerformerKind()

Retrieves the kind of participant this conditional performer is supposed to resolve to at runtime.

Returns:

The runtime-type of this conditional performer.

getResolvedPerformer

Participant getResolvedPerformer()

Retrieves the performer this conditional performer resolves to at runtime. This resolve operation can only be performed if this conditional performer was obtained in the context of a process or activity instance.

Returns:

The resolved participant. null if the participant could not be resolved.