org.springframework.webflow.executor
Interface FlowExecutor

All Known Implementing Classes:

FlowExecutorImpl

public interface FlowExecutor

The central facade and entry-point service interface into the Spring Web Flow system for driving the executions of flow definitions. This interface defines a coarse-grained system boundary suitable for invocation by most clients.

Implementations of this interface abstract away much of the internal complexity of the web flow execution subsystem, which consists of launching and resuming managed flow executions.

Author:

Keith Donald

Method Summary

FlowExecutionResult	launchExecution(java.lang.String flowId, MutableAttributeMap<?> input, ExternalContext context) Launch a new execution of the flow with the provided id.
FlowExecutionResult	resumeExecution(java.lang.String flowExecutionKey, ExternalContext context) Resume the flow execution with the provided execution key.

Method Detail

launchExecution

FlowExecutionResult launchExecution(java.lang.String flowId,
                                    MutableAttributeMap<?> input,
                                    ExternalContext context)
                                    throws FlowException

Launch a new execution of the flow with the provided id.

Parameters:

flowId - the flow definition identifier; should be unique among all top-level flow definitions (required).

input - input to pass to the new execution on startup (optional)

context - access to the calling environment (required)

Throws:

FlowException

resumeExecution

FlowExecutionResult resumeExecution(java.lang.String flowExecutionKey,
                                    ExternalContext context)
                                    throws FlowException

Resume the flow execution with the provided execution key.

Parameters:

flowExecutionKey - the key of a paused execution of the flow definition

context - access to the calling environment

Throws:

FlowException