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/**
 * XOR, empowering Model Driven Architecture in J2EE applications
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2012, Dilip Dalton
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * 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 tools.xor.custom;

import tools.xor.CallInfo;
import tools.xor.util.ObjectCreator;


public interface AssociationStrategy {
	/**
	 * The strategy used to associate with an existing object based on the source information
	 * @param callInfo object
	 * @param oc ObjectCreator
	 * @return persistence managed object
	 */
	public Object execute(CallInfo callInfo, ObjectCreator oc);

	/**
	 * Method that indicates if the source object should be further processed
	 * @param callInfo object
	 * @return true if we should continue processing child entities
	 */
	public boolean doProcess(CallInfo callInfo);
}