001/**
002 *   GRANITE DATA SERVICES
003 *   Copyright (C) 2006-2013 GRANITE DATA SERVICES S.A.S.
004 *
005 *   This file is part of the Granite Data Services Platform.
006 *
007 *   Granite Data Services is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
008 *   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
009 *   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
010 *   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
011 *
012 *   Granite Data Services is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
013 *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
014 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser
015 *   General Public License for more details.
016 *
017 *   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
018 *   License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
019 *   Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
020 *   USA, or see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
021 */
022package org.granite.messaging;
023
024import java.util.Set;
025
026/**
027 * SPI for registry of class name aliases used during AMF/JMF serialization.
028 * An alias registry should store correspondences between server and client class names
029 * The alias registry will scan specified packages to find classes annotated with @RemoteAlias
030 *
031 * @author William DRAI
032 */
033public interface AliasRegistry {
034
035    /**
036     * Scan the specified packages for aliases classes
037     * This is called when the channel factory starts
038     * @param packageNames
039     */
040        public void scan(Set<String> packageNames);
041
042    /**
043     * Return the client class name for a specified server class alias
044     * @param alias server class name
045     * @return corresponding client class name
046     */
047    public String getTypeForAlias(String alias);
048
049    /**
050     * Return the aliased server class name for a specified client class name
051     * @param className client class name
052     * @return corresponding server class name
053     */
054    public String getAliasForType(String className);
055}