src/main/java/org/apache/sling/hc/api/HealthCheck.java

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package org.apache.sling.hc.api;

import aQute.bnd.annotation.ConsumerType;


/**
 * Health Check services can be executed and
 * return an execution {@link Result}.
 *
 * Clients should not look up health checks directly but
 * rather use the {@link org.apache.sling.hc.api.execution.HealthCheckExecutor}
 * service and executed checks based on tags.
 *
 * If the {@link #MBEAN_NAME} service registration property is set,
 * the health check is registered as an mbean and can be invoked
 * by getting the MBean from the JMX registry.
 */
@ConsumerType
public interface HealthCheck {

    /**
     * Optional service property: the name of a health check.
     * This name should be unique, however there might be more than one
     * health check service with the same value for this property.
     * The value of this property must be of type String.
     */
    String NAME = "hc.name";

    /**
     * Optional service property: the name of the MBean for registering
     * the health check as an MBean. If this property is missing the
     * health check is not registered as a JMX MBean.
     * If there is more than one service with the same value for this
     * property, the one with the highest service ranking is registered
     * only.
     * The value of this property must be of type String.
     */
    String MBEAN_NAME = "hc.mbean.name";

    /**
     * Optional service property: tags for categorizing the health check
     * services.
     * The value of this property must be of type String or String array.
     */
    String TAGS = "hc.tags";
    
    /**
     * Optional service property: If this property is set the health check
     * will be executed asynchronously using the cron expression provided.
     */
    String ASYNC_CRON_EXPRESSION = "hc.async.cronExpression";

    /**
     * Optional service property: TTL for health check {@link Result}.
     * The value of this property must be of type {@link Long} and is 
     * specified in ms.
     */
    String RESULT_CACHE_TTL_IN_MS = "hc.resultCacheTtlInMs";

    /**
     * Execute this health check and return a {@link Result}
     * This is meant to execute quickly, access to external
     * systems, for example, should be managed asynchronously.
     */
    Result execute();
}