001    /*
002     * Copyright 2011 The Kuali Foundation.
003     * 
004     * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     * 
008     * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009     * 
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    package org.kuali.kfs.sys.document.validation;
017    
018    import org.kuali.kfs.sys.document.validation.event.AttributedDocumentEvent;
019    
020    
021    /**
022     * A declaration of methods needed to validate an accounting document based on a given event 
023     */
024    public interface AccountingRuleEngineRule {
025        
026        /**
027         * Validates a particular event
028         * @param event the event to validate
029         * @return true if validation succeeded and the process requiring validation should continue, false
030         * if the validation failed and the process should quit
031         */
032        public abstract boolean validateForEvent(AttributedDocumentEvent event);
033    }