package hudson.model;

import hudson.ExtensionPoint;
import hudson.Launcher;
import hudson.Plugin;
import hudson.tasks.BuildStep;
import hudson.tasks.Builder;
import hudson.tasks.Publisher;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Extensible property of {@link Job}.
 *
 * <p>
 * {@link Plugin}s can extend this to define custom properties
 * for {@link Job}s. {@link JobProperty}s show up in the user
 * configuration screen, and they are persisted with the job object.
 *
 * <p>
 * Configuration screen should be defined in <tt>config.jelly</tt>.
 * Within this page, the {@link JobProperty} instance is available
 * as <tt>instance</tt> variable (while <tt>it</tt> refers to {@link Job}.
 *
 * <p>
 * Starting 1.150, {@link JobProperty} implements {@link BuildStep},
 * meaning it gets the same hook as {@link Publisher} and {@link Builder}.
 * The primary intention of this mechanism is so that {@link JobProperty}s
 * can add actions to the new build.
 *
 *
 * @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi
 * @see JobPropertyDescriptor
 * @since 1.72
 */
public abstract class JobProperty<J extends Job<?,?>> implements Describable<JobProperty<?>>, BuildStep, ExtensionPoint {
    /**
     * The {@link Job} object that owns this property.
     * This value will be set by the Hudson code.
     * Derived classes can expect this value to be always set.
     */
    protected transient J owner;

    /**
     * Hook for performing post-initialization action.
     *
     * <p>
     * This method is invoked in two cases. One is when the {@link Job} that owns
     * this property is loaded from disk, and the other is when a job is re-configured
     * and all the {@link JobProperty} instances got re-created.
     */
    protected void setOwner(J owner) {
        this.owner = owner;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public abstract JobPropertyDescriptor getDescriptor();

    /**
     * {@link Action} to be displayed in the job page.
     *
     * @return
     *      null if there's no such action.
     * @since 1.102
     */
    public Action getJobAction(J job) {
        return null;
    }

//
// default no-op implementation
//

    public boolean prebuild(AbstractBuild<?,?> build, BuildListener listener) {
        return true;
    }

    public boolean perform(AbstractBuild<?,?> build, Launcher launcher, BuildListener listener) throws InterruptedException, IOException {
        return true;
    }

    public final Action getProjectAction(AbstractProject<?,?> project) {
        return getJobAction((J)project);
    }
}

@@ -1930,24 +1930,202 @@
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+     * @param job%0A     *      Always the same as %7B@link #owner%7D but passed in anyway for backward compatibility (I guess.)%0A     *      You really need not use this value at all.%0A
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What the heck this parameter is doing!?