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+<?php
+/**
+ * Interface that provides an interface which must be implemented by all objects wishing to be
+ * recorded in the system log (and by extension the river).
+ *
+ * This interface defines a set of methods that permit the system log functions to
+ * hook in and retrieve the necessary information and to identify what events can
+ * actually be logged.
+ *
+ * To have events involving your object to be logged simply implement this interface.
+ *
+ * @package Elgg.Core
+ * @subpackage DataModel.Loggable
+ */
+interface Loggable {
+ /**
+ * Return an identification for the object for storage in the system log.
+ * This id must be an integer.
+ *
+ * @return int
+ */
+ public function getSystemLogID();
+
+ /**
+ * Return the class name of the object.
+ * Added as a function because get_class causes errors for some reason.
+ *
+ * @return string
+ */
+ public function getClassName();
+
+ /**
+ * Return the type of the object - eg. object, group, user, relationship, metadata, annotation etc
+ *
+ * @return string
+ */
+ public function getType();
+
+ /**
+ * Return a subtype. For metadata & annotations this is the 'name' and for relationship this is the
+ * relationship type.
+ *
+ * @return string
+ */
+ public function getSubtype();
+
+ /**
+ * For a given ID, return the object associated with it.
+ * This is used by the river functionality primarily.
+ * This is useful for checking access permissions etc on objects.
+ *
+ * @param int $id GUID of an entity
+ *
+ * @return ElggEntity
+ */
+ public function getObjectFromID($id);
+
+ /**
+ * Return the GUID of the owner of this object.
+ *
+ * @return int
+ * @deprecated 1.8 Use getOwnerGUID() instead
+ */
+ public function getObjectOwnerGUID();
+}