/*
  Copyright (C) 2007 Helge Hess

  This file is part of JOPE.

  JOPE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
  the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
  Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
  later version.

  JOPE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
  WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public
  License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License along with JOPE; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
  Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
  02111-1307, USA.
*/

package org.opengroupware.jope.appserver.publisher;

import org.opengroupware.jope.appserver.core.WOContext;

/* 
 * JoObjectRenderer
 * 
 * After a JOPE method associated with a request got run and returned a result,
 * JOPE will trigger a renderer to turn the result into a HTTP response.
 * 
 * For regular WO like applications the result is usually a WOComponent which
 * itself does the actual rendering.
 * 
 * Note that the render directly renders into the WOResponse which is contained
 * in the WOContext.
 */
public interface JoObjectRenderer {

  public Exception renderObjectInContext(Object _object, WOContext _ctx);
  public boolean   canRenderObjectInContext(Object _object, WOContext _ctx);
}