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/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 * distributed with this work for additional information
 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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 *
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 */

package org.apache.tuscany.sca.runtime;

import java.io.Serializable;

import org.apache.tuscany.sca.assembly.Endpoint;
import org.apache.tuscany.sca.context.CompositeContext;
import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.InterfaceContract;
import org.apache.tuscany.sca.provider.ServiceBindingProvider;

/**
 * The runtime representation of a service endpoint
 * @tuscany.spi.extension.asclient
 */
public interface RuntimeEndpoint extends Endpoint, Invocable, Serializable {
    /**
     * Attach the service binding provider
     * @param provider
     */
    void setBindingProvider(ServiceBindingProvider provider);

    /**
     * Get the service binding provider
     * @return
     */
    ServiceBindingProvider getBindingProvider();
    
    /**
     * Get the interface contract for the binding. This represents the data types that the binding
     * protocol stack can process.
     * @return The binding interface contract
     */
    InterfaceContract getBindingInterfaceContract();
    
    /**
     * Get the interface contract of the service of the target component type, i.e., the
     * componentType.service.interfaceContract. This represents the data types that the implementation
     * code can process.
     * @return The target component type service interface contract
     */
    InterfaceContract getComponentTypeServiceInterfaceContract();
    
    
    /**
     * Check that endpoint  has compatible interface at the component and binding ends. 
     * The user can specify the interfaces at both ends so there is a danger that they won't be compatible.
     */
    void validateServiceInterfaceCompatibility();    
    
    /**
     * Get the composite context for the composite that contains this endpoint. This
     * is useful for accessing various composite level objects from within the 
     * runtime code
     */
    CompositeContext getCompositeContext();
    
    /**
     * Retrieve the normalized WSDL contract relating to the input WSDL contract
     * 
     * @param interfaceContract
     * @return
     */
    public InterfaceContract getGeneratedWSDLContract(InterfaceContract interfaceContract);    
    
    /**
     * Creates the async callback for this Endpoint, if it does not already exist
     * and stores it into the Endpoint
     */
    public void createAsyncServerCallback( );
    
    /**
     * Gets the async callback reference for this Endpoint, if it exists
     * @return
     */
    public RuntimeEndpointReference getAsyncServerCallback();
    
    /**
     * Get/Set the endpoint  that this endpoint  delegates to. This only
     * comes into play when this endpoint  is configured with an SCA bindng
     */
    RuntimeEndpoint getDelegateEndpoint();
    void setDelegateEndpoint(RuntimeEndpoint delegateEndpoint);
    
}