org.eclipse.smila.processing
Interface WorkflowProcessor

All Known Implementing Classes:

ODEWorkflowProcessor

public interface WorkflowProcessor

Interface of WorkflowProcessors. A workflow orchestrates a set of SMILA pipelets (or other components) to process SMILA records. It may use deliberate workflow definition languages, e.g. BPEL.

Author:

jschumacher

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

NAMESPACE_PROCESSOR namespace of SMILA BPEL process names.

Method Summary

java.util.List<java.lang.String>	getWorkflowNames() get the names of the currently active workflows.
Id[]	process(java.lang.String workflowName, Blackboard blackboard, Id[] recordIds) process records on Blackboard service.
SearchMessage	process(java.lang.String workflowName, Blackboard blackboard, SearchMessage query) process a search request on Blackboard service.

Field Detail

NAMESPACE_PROCESSOR

static final java.lang.String NAMESPACE_PROCESSOR

namespace of SMILA BPEL process names.

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

process

Id[] process(java.lang.String workflowName,
             Blackboard blackboard,
             Id[] recordIds)
             throws ProcessingException

process records on Blackboard service.

Parameters:

workflowName - name of workflow to execute on Ids

blackboard - blackboard to use for processing

recordIds - Ids of records to process.

Returns:

Ids of result records.

Throws:

ProcessingException - error during processing.

process

SearchMessage process(java.lang.String workflowName,
                      Blackboard blackboard,
                      SearchMessage query)
                      throws ProcessingException

process a search request on Blackboard service.

Parameters:

workflowName - name of workflow to execute on message.

blackboard - blackboard to use for processing

query - Id of query record. The record Id list in this will be null, usually.

Returns:

Ids of effective query and result records.

Throws:

ProcessingException - error during processing.

getWorkflowNames

java.util.List<java.lang.String> getWorkflowNames()

get the names of the currently active workflows.

Returns:

names of workflows.