/**
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 * distributed with this work for additional information
 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package org.apache.sqoop.tool;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Abstract base class that defines the ToolPlugin API; additional SqoopTool
 * implementations may be registered with the system via ToolPlugin classes.
 */
public abstract class ToolPlugin {
  /**
   * Describes the tools made available by this plugin.
   * @return a list of ToolDesc objects containing the tool name, class,
   * and description.
   */
  public abstract List<ToolDesc> getTools();
}