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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.
6    * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7    *
8    * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9    *
10   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11   * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12   * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13   * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14   * limitations under the License.
15   */
16  package org.kuali.rice.krad.dao;
17  
18  import java.util.List;
19  
20  import org.kuali.rice.krad.document.MaintenanceLock;
21  
22  /**
23   * This interface defines basic methods that MaintenanceDocument Dao's must provide
24   * 
25   * 
26   */
27  public interface MaintenanceDocumentDao {
28  
29  //    public Collection getPendingDocumentsForClass(Class dataObjectClass);
30  
31      /**
32       * 
33       * This method looks for a document that is locking the given lockingRepresentation. If one is found, then it
34       * retrieves the documentNumber, and returns it.
35       * 
36       * @param lockingRepresentation - locking representation to check for
37       * @param documentNumber - document number to ignore, optional argument
38       * @return returns an empty string if no locking document is found, otherwise returns the documentNumber of the locking document
39       * 
40       */
41      public String getLockingDocumentNumber(String lockingRepresentation, String documentNumber);
42  
43      /**
44       * This method deletes the locks for the given document number.  It is called when the document is final,
45       * thus it can be unlocked, or when the locks need to be regenerated (thus they get cleared first).
46       * 
47       * @param documentNumber - document number whose locks should be deleted
48       */
49      public void deleteLocks(String documentNumber);
50  
51      /**
52       * This method stores the given list of maintenance locks.  Typically these will all be for the same document.
53       * 
54       * @param maintenanceLocks - the list of maintenance locks to be stored
55       */
56      public void storeLocks(List<MaintenanceLock> maintenanceLocks);
57  
58  }