trade_model_path.py

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"""
Products.ERP5.interfaces.trade_model_path
"""

from zope.interface import Interface

class ITradeModelPath(Interface):
  """Trade Model Path interface specification

  The core purpose of Trade Model Path is to define the arrows and dates of 
  an amount generated by a Rule and eventually transform this amount into a 
  single or multiple similation movements.
  """

  def getExpectedQuantity(amount):
    """Returns the new quantity for the provided amount taking
    into account the efficiency or the quantity defined on the business path.
    This is used to implement payment conditions or splitting production
    over multiple path. The total of getExpectedQuantity for all business
    path which are applicable should never exceed the original quantity.
    The implementation of this validation is left to rules.
    """