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016package org.kuali.ole.vnd.dataaccess;
017
018/**
019 * Commodity Code DAO Interface.
020 */
021public interface CommodityCodeDao {
022    
023    /**
024     * Checks whether the commodity code in wildcard form exists.
025     * For example, if the wildCardCommodityCode in the input parameter is
026     * 100* and the database has commodity code 10023, then this method 
027     * will return true. If no matching found then this method returns false.
028     * 
029     * @param wildCardCommodityCode The string containing wild card character to be queried to the database.
030     * 
031     * @return boolean true if the wildcardCommodityCode exists in the database.
032     */
033    public boolean wildCardCommodityCodeExists(String wildCardCommodityCode);
034}