001    /*
002     * Copyright 2007-2008 The Kuali Foundation
003     *
004     * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     *
008     * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009     *
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    package org.kuali.rice.kns.dao;
017    
018    import org.kuali.rice.kns.bo.BusinessObject;
019    
020    /**
021     * This class may be used by the SequenceAccessorService implementation to get the next number for a given sequence. 
022     */
023    public interface SequenceAccessorDao {
024            public Long getNextAvailableSequenceNumber(String sequenceName, 
025                            Class<? extends BusinessObject> clazz);
026            
027        public Long getNextAvailableSequenceNumber(String sequenceName);
028    }