org.daisy.dotify.api.embosser

Interface EmbosserCatalogService

All Known Implementing Classes:

EmbosserCatalog

public interface EmbosserCatalogService

Provides an interface for an EmbosserCatalog service. The purpose of this interface is to expose an implementation of an EmbosserCatalog as an OSGi service.

To comply with this interface, an implementation must be thread safe and address both the possibility that only a single instance is created and used throughout and that new instances are created as desired.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Collection<EmbosserFactoryProperties>	listEmbossers() Lists embossers
Collection<EmbosserFactoryProperties>	listEmbossers(EmbosserFilter filter) Lists embossers matching the specified filter
Embosser	newEmbosser(String identifier) Creates a new embosser with the specified identifier.

Method Detail

newEmbosser

Embosser newEmbosser(String identifier)

Creates a new embosser with the specified identifier.

Parameters:

identifier - the identifier

Returns:

returns a new embosser, or null if not found

listEmbossers

Collection<EmbosserFactoryProperties> listEmbossers()

Lists embossers

Returns:

returns a list of embossers

listEmbossers

Collection<EmbosserFactoryProperties> listEmbossers(EmbosserFilter filter)

Lists embossers matching the specified filter

Parameters:

filter - the filter

Returns:

returns a list of embossers