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alfresco-community-repo/source/java/org/alfresco/web/forms/RenderingEngine.java
Ariel Backenroth 07686ab8ce - adding in the structure for an XSL FO rendering engine
- terminology cleanups to model and screens
- extracting company-footer back into its own xsd; no reason to shove that feature in everyone's face.

git-svn-id: https://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-enterprise/alfresco/BRANCHES/WCM-DEV2/root@4227 c4b6b30b-aa2e-2d43-bbcb-ca4b014f7261
2006-10-26 04:16:16 +00:00

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc.
*
* Licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 1.1
* with a permitted attribution clause. You may obtain a
* copy of the License at
*
* http://www.alfresco.org/legal/license.txt
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
* software distributed under the License is distributed on an
* "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
* either express or implied. See the License for the specific
* language governing permissions and limitations under the
* License.
*/
package org.alfresco.web.forms;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NodeRef;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Map;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
/**
* Serializes the xml instance data collected by a form to a writer.
*
* @author Ariel Backenroth
*/
public interface RenderingEngine
extends Serializable
{
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static class RenderingException
extends Exception
{
public RenderingException(final Exception cause)
{
super(cause);
}
public RenderingException(final String msg, final Exception cause)
{
super(msg, cause);
}
}
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
* XXXarielb this shouldn't be in the interface... i'll figure out a
* different id scheme once i make rendering engines configurable.
*
* the noderef associated with this output method
*/
public NodeRef getNodeRef();
/**
* Renders the xml data in to a presentation format.
*
* @param formInstanceData the xml content to serialize
* @param form the form that collected the xml content.
* @param parameters the set of parameters to the rendering engine
* @param out the output stream to serialize to.
*/
public void render(final Document formInstanceData,
final Map<String, String> parameters,
final OutputStream out)
throws IOException, RenderingException;
/**
* Returns the file extension to use when generating content for this
* output method.
*
* @return the file extension to use when generating content for this
* output method, such as html, xml, pdf.
*/
public String getFileExtensionForRendition();
/**
* Returns the mimetype to use when generating content for this
* output method.
*
* @return the mimetype to use when generating content for this
* output method, such as text/html, text/xml, application/pdf.
*/
public String getMimetypeForRendition();
}