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package org.kuali.rice.ken.service;


/**
 * This class is responsible for the job that will actually resolve which recipients receive a notification for specific endpoints.
 * This service will be responsible for creating NotificationDeliveryMessage object instances to be used by a later process that actually 
 * delivers the messages.
 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
 */
public interface NotificationMessageDeliveryResolverService {
    /**
     * This service method is responsible for retrieving all unprocessed notifications that have sendDateTimes either equal to or before the 
     * current time, and resolving their recipient lists so that proper NotificationMessageDelivery records can be created for them.  
     * This service is to be run periodically in a separate thread, as a daemon process.
     * @return int the number of resolved messages
     */
    public ProcessingResult resolveNotificationMessageDeliveries();
}
