1 /* 2 * Copyright 2002-2006 the original author or authors. 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 package org.springframework.webflow.action; 17 18 import org.springframework.webflow.execution.Event; 19 import org.springframework.webflow.execution.RequestContext; 20 21 /** 22 * A strategy for creating an {@link Event} object from an arbitrary object 23 * such as an expression evaluation result or bean method return value. 24 * 25 * @author Keith Donald 26 */ 27 public interface ResultEventFactory { 28 29 /** 30 * Create an event instance from the result object. 31 * @param source the source of the event 32 * @param resultObject the result object, typically the return value of a 33 * bean method 34 * @param context a flow execution request context 35 * @return the event 36 */ 37 public Event createResultEvent(Object source, Object resultObject, RequestContext context); 38 }