org.kuali.rice.kns.service
Interface KeyValuesService

All Known Implementing Classes:

KeyValuesServiceImpl

public interface KeyValuesService

This class provides collection retrievals to populate key value pairs of business objects.

Method Summary

Collection	findAll(Class clazz) Retrieves a collection of business objects populated with data, such that each record in the database populates a new object instance.
Collection	findAllInactive(Class clazz) Retrieves a collection of business objects populated with data, such that each record in the database populates a new object instance.
Collection	findAllOrderBy(Class clazz, String sortField, boolean sortAscending) Retrieves a collection of business objects populated with data, such that each record in the database populates a new object instance.
Collection	findMatching(Class clazz, Map fieldValues) This method retrieves a collection of business objects populated with data, such that each record in the database populates a new object instance.

Method Detail

findAll

Collection findAll(Class clazz)

Retrieves a collection of business objects populated with data, such that each record in the database populates a new object instance. This will only retrieve business objects by class type.

Parameters:

clazz -

Returns:

findAllOrderBy

Collection findAllOrderBy(Class clazz,
                          String sortField,
                          boolean sortAscending)

Retrieves a collection of business objects populated with data, such that each record in the database populates a new object instance. This will only retrieve business objects by class type. Performs a sort on the result collection on the given sort field.

Parameters:

clazz -

sortField - - name of the field in the class to sort results by

sortAscending - - boolean indicating whether to sort ascending or descending

Returns:

findMatching

Collection findMatching(Class clazz,
                        Map fieldValues)

This method retrieves a collection of business objects populated with data, such that each record in the database populates a new object instance. This will retrieve business objects by class type and also by criteria passed in as key-value pairs, specifically attribute name and its expected value.

Parameters:

clazz -

fieldValues -

Returns:

findAllInactive

Collection findAllInactive(Class clazz)

Retrieves a collection of business objects populated with data, such that each record in the database populates a new object instance. This will only retrieve business objects by class type.

Parameters:

clazz -

Returns: