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1 /*
2  * $Id: PropertyExtractor.java 3798 2006-11-04 04:07:14Z aperepel $
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 MuleSource MPL
7  * license, a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the
8  * LICENSE.txt file.
9  */

10
11 package org.mule.util.properties;
12
13 /**
14  * <code>PropertyExtractor</code> extracts a property from the message in a generic
15  * way. i.e. composite properties can be pulled and aggregated depending on this
16  * strategy. This can be used to extract Correlation Ids, Message Ids etc.
17  */

18 public interface PropertyExtractor
19 {
20     /**
21      * Extracts a single property from the message
22      *
23      * @param name the property name or expression
24      * @param message the message to extract from
25      * @return the result of the extraction or null if the property was not found
26      */

27     Object JavaDoc getProperty(String JavaDoc name, Object JavaDoc message);
28
29 }
30
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