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