Paul Holmes-Higgin 31c250682b Changed licence headers
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/*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/
package org.alfresco.repo.workflow;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NodeRef;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.workflow.WorkflowTask;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.workflow.WorkflowTaskState;
import org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName;
/**
* SPI to be implemented by a BPM Engine that provides Task management.
*
* @author davidc
*/
public interface TaskComponent
{
/**
* Gets a Task by unique Id
*
* @param taskId the task id
* @return the task
*/
public WorkflowTask getTaskById(String taskId);
/**
* Gets all tasks assigned to the specified authority
*
* @param authority the authority
* @param state filter by specified workflow task state
* @return the list of assigned tasks
*/
public List<WorkflowTask> getAssignedTasks(String authority, WorkflowTaskState state);
/**
* Gets the pooled tasks available to the specified authority
*
* @param authority the authority
* @return the list of pooled tasks
*/
public List<WorkflowTask> getPooledTasks(List<String> authorities);
/**
* Update the Properties and Associations of a Task
*
* @param taskId the task id to update
* @param properties the map of properties to set on the task (or null, if none to set)
* @param add the map of items to associate with the task (or null, if none to add)
* @param remove the map of items to dis-associate with the task (or null, if none to remove)
* @return the update task
*/
public WorkflowTask updateTask(String taskId, Map<QName, Serializable> properties, Map<QName, List<NodeRef>> add, Map<QName, List<NodeRef>> remove);
/**
* Start the specified Task
*
* Note: this is an optional task operation. It may be used to track
* when work started on a task as well as resume a suspended task.
*
* @param taskId the task to start
* @return the updated task
*/
public WorkflowTask startTask(String taskId);
/**
* Suspend the specified Task
*
* @param taskId
* @return the update task
*/
public WorkflowTask suspendTask(String taskId);
/**
* End the Task (i.e. complete the task)
*
* @param taskId the task id to end
* @param transition the task transition to take on completion (or null, for the default transition)
* @return the updated task
*/
public WorkflowTask endTask(String taskId, String transitionId);
}