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package org.activiti.engine.cfg;
import org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl;
/**
* Implementations of this class can be plugged into a {@link ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl}. Such implementations can configure the engine in any way programmatically possible.
*
*/
public interface ProcessEngineConfigurator {
/**
* Called before any initialisation has been done. This can for example be useful to change configuration settings before anything that uses those properties is created.
*
* Allows to tweak the process engine by passing the {@link ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl} which allows tweaking it programmatically.
*
* An example is the jdbc url. When a {@link ProcessEngineConfigurator} instance wants to change it, it needs to do it in this method, or otherwise the datasource would already have been created
* with the 'old' value for the jdbc url.
*/
void beforeInit(ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl processEngineConfiguration);
/**
* Called when the engine boots up, before it is usable, but after the initialisation of internal objects is done.
*
* Allows to tweak the process engine by passing the {@link ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl} which allows tweaking it programmatically.
*
* An example is the ldap user/group manager, which is an addition to the engine. No default properties need to be overridden for this (otherwise the
* {@link #beforeInit(ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl)} method should be used) so the logic contained in this method is executed after initialisation of the default objects.
*
* Probably a better name would be 'afterInit' (cfr {@link #beforeInit(ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl)}), but not possible due to backwards compatibility.
*/
void configure(ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl processEngineConfiguration);
/**
* When the {@link ProcessEngineConfigurator} instances are used, they are first ordered by this priority number (lowest to highest). If you have dependencies between
* {@link ProcessEngineConfigurator} instances, use the priorities accordingly to order them as needed.
*/
int getPriority();
}