1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2011 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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9 *
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.kew.impl.document.search;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.kew.api.document.search.DocumentSearchCriteria;
19
20 import java.util.Map;
21
22 /**
23 * Handles translating between parameters submitted to the document search and {@link org.kuali.rice.kew.api.document.search.DocumentSearchCriteria}.
24 *
25 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
26 */
27 public interface DocumentSearchCriteriaTranslator {
28
29 /**
30 * Translates the given map of fields values into a {@link org.kuali.rice.kew.api.document.search.DocumentSearchCriteria}. The given map of
31 * field values is keyed based on the name of the field being submitted and the value represents that field value,
32 * which may contain wildcards and other logical operators supported by the KNS lookup framework.
33 *
34 * @param fieldValues the map of field names and values from which to populate the criteria
35 * @return populated document search criteria which contains the various criteria components populated based on the
36 * interpretation of the given field values
37 */
38 DocumentSearchCriteria translateFieldsToCriteria(Map<String, String> fieldValues);
39
40 /**
41 * Translates the given {@link org.kuali.rice.kew.api.document.search.DocumentSearchCriteria} into a map of fields values. Reverse of
42 * {@link #translateFieldsToCriteria(java.util.Map)}
43 *
44 * @param criteria document search criteria
45 * @return Map populated with the various criteria components
46 */
47 Map<String, String[]> translateCriteriaToFields(DocumentSearchCriteria criteria);
48 }