001/*
002 * Copyright 2013 Box, Inc. All rights reserved.
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Apache 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.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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 */
016package org.nuxeo.box.api.marshalling.interfaces;
017
018import java.util.Collection;
019
020public interface IBoxResourceHub {
021
022    /**
023     * Given a {@link IBoxType}, get the corrosponding DAO class.
024     *
025     * @param type resource type
026     * @return corresponding resource DAO class
027     */
028    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
029    Class getClass(IBoxType type);
030
031    /**
032     * Get the IBoxType from a lower case string value. For example "file" would return BoxResourceType.FILE
033     *
034     * @param
035     * @return
036     */
037    IBoxType getTypeFromLowercaseString(String type);
038
039    Collection<IBoxType> getAllTypes();
040}