com.arjuna.mw.wsas.activity
Interface Outcome

All Known Implementing Classes:

CoordinationOutcome, CoordinationOutcome

public interface Outcome

The Outcome represents the final outcome of the activity. Because different HLS implementations will have different requirements on what they can or cannot return, this interface is deliberately generic.

Since:

1.0.

Version:

$Id: Outcome.java,v 1.2 2005/05/19 12:13:16 nmcl Exp $

Author:

Mark Little (mark.little@arjuna.com)

Method Summary

CompletionStatus	completedStatus() The state in which the activity completed.
Object	data() Outcome specific information that can be used to determine finer level details about the outcome instance.
String	name() Give a name for this outcome.

Method Detail

name

String name()
            throws SystemException

Give a name for this outcome.

Returns:

some implementation specific name for the Outcome. Typically this will be the only thing necessary to determine the transaction's outcome, e.g., "RolledBack".

Throws:

SystemException - Thrown if an error occurs.

completedStatus

CompletionStatus completedStatus()
                                 throws SystemException

The state in which the activity completed.

Returns:

the final completion status of the transaction. Any additional information (e.g., exception types) may be provided by the data method.

Throws:

SystemException - Thrown if an error occurs.

data

Object data()
            throws SystemException

Outcome specific information that can be used to determine finer level details about the outcome instance.

Returns:

completion specific data for this activity. Examples include the type of failure exception that was thrown by the implementation (e.g., HeuristicMixed).

Throws:

SystemException - Thrown if an error occurs.