1 /* 2 * $Id: BaseTransformer.java 10489 2008-01-23 17:53:38Z dfeist $ 3 * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 * Copyright (c) MuleSource, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.mulesource.com 5 * 6 * The software in this package is published under the terms of the CPAL v1.0 7 * license, a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the 8 * LICENSE.txt file. 9 */ 10 package org.mule.api.transformer; 11 12 import org.mule.api.NamedObject; 13 import org.mule.api.endpoint.ImmutableEndpoint; 14 import org.mule.api.lifecycle.Initialisable; 15 16 /** 17 * <code>Transformer</code> can be chained together to covert message payloads from one 18 * object type to another. 19 20 */ 21 public interface BaseTransformer extends Initialisable, NamedObject 22 { 23 /** 24 * The endpoint that this transformer is attached to 25 * @return the endpoint associated with the transformer 26 */ 27 ImmutableEndpoint getEndpoint(); 28 29 /** 30 * Sets the endpoint associated with with this connector. 31 * This should be idempotent, since endpoints do not guarantee it will only 32 * be called once. 33 * @param endpoint sets the endpoint associated with the transfromer 34 */ 35 void setEndpoint(ImmutableEndpoint endpoint); 36 37 }