1 /*
2 * Copyright 2007-2008 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.ole.vnd.dataaccess;
17
18 /**
19 * Commodity Code DAO Interface.
20 */
21 public interface CommodityCodeDao {
22
23 /**
24 * Checks whether the commodity code in wildcard form exists.
25 * For example, if the wildCardCommodityCode in the input parameter is
26 * 100* and the database has commodity code 10023, then this method
27 * will return true. If no matching found then this method returns false.
28 *
29 * @param wildCardCommodityCode The string containing wild card character to be queried to the database.
30 *
31 * @return boolean true if the wildcardCommodityCode exists in the database.
32 */
33 public boolean wildCardCommodityCodeExists(String wildCardCommodityCode);
34 }