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package org.apache.qpid.test.framework;

import org.apache.qpid.junit.extensions.util.ParsedProperties;

/**
 * A Publisher represents the status of the publishing side of a test circuit. Its main purpose is to provide assertions
 * that can be applied to test the behaviour of the publishers.
 *
 * <p/><table id="crc"><caption>CRC Card</caption>
 * <tr><th> Responsibilities
 * <tr><td> Provide assertion that the publishers received no exceptions.
 * </table>
 *
 * @todo There are mixtures of AMQP and JMS assertions in this interface. Either keep them here, but quietly (or with a
 *       warning or error) drop them from test cases where they are not relevant, or push them down into sub-classes.
 *       I am tempted to go with the dropping/warning/error approach, that would imply that it makes sense to pull
 *       the assertions back from AMQPPublisher to here.
 */
public interface Publisher
{
    // Assertions that are meaningfull to AMQP and to JMS.

    /**
     * Provides an assertion that the publisher encountered no exceptions.
     *
     * @param testProps The test configuration properties.
     *
     * @return An assertion that the publisher encountered no exceptions.
     */
    public Assertion noExceptionsAssertion(ParsedProperties testProps);

    // Assertions that are meaningfull only to AMQP.

    /**
     * Provides an assertion that the AMQP channel was forcibly closed by an error condition.
     *
     * @param testProps The test configuration properties.
     *
     * @return An assertion that the AMQP channel was forcibly closed by an error condition.
     */
    public Assertion channelClosedAssertion(ParsedProperties testProps);

    // Assertions that are meaningfull only to Java/JMS.

    /**
     * Provides an assertion that the publisher got a given exception during the test.
     *
     * @param testProps      The test configuration properties.
     * @param exceptionClass The exception class to check for.
     *
     * @return An assertion that the publisher got a given exception during the test.
     */
    public Assertion exceptionAssertion(ParsedProperties testProps, Class<? extends Exception> exceptionClass);
}