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package org.apache.jetspeed.healthcheck.validators;
import org.apache.jetspeed.pipeline.valve.HealthCheckValve;
/**
* Interface to be implemented by validator classes which will be injected in {@link HealthCheckValve}.
*
* @author Ruben Carvalho
* @version $Id$
*/
public interface HealthCheckValidator
{
static final String LINE_SEPARATOR = System.getProperty("line.separator");
/**
* This method performs the validation and returns the status of the execution
*
* @return An instance of HealthCheckValidatorResult
with the result code
*/
HealthCheckValidatorResult validate();
/**
* This method returns the number of times the validate() method should be re-executed if it fails the first time.
*
* @return Number of times to re-execute validate()
*/
int getNumberOfRetries();
/**
* This method returns the amount of time between each execution of the validate() method
*
* @return The amount of time between each execution of validate()
*/
long getRetryDelay();
}