Coverage Report - org.kuali.rice.core.api.criteria.QueryResults
 
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QueryResults
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 /**
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  * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation
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  *
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  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
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  *
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  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
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  *
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  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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  * limitations under the License.
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  */
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 package org.kuali.rice.core.api.criteria;
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 import java.util.List;
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 /**
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  * Contains a collection of results from a query.  This interface exists as a
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  * utility for services that want to implement it to represents results from
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  * criteria-based (or other) queries.
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  *
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  * <p>
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  * Also may  provide information related to the count of rows returned
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  * by the query as well as whether or not the query returned all available results.
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  * </p>
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  *
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  * <p>
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  * All the information in this interface is populated depending on the information
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  * requested via the {@link QueryByCriteria}.
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  * </p>
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  *
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  * @param <T> the type of the objects contained within the results list
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  *
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  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
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  *
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  */
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 public interface QueryResults<T> {
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     /**
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          * Return the list of results that are contained within.  This list can
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          * be empty but it should never be null.
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          *
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          * @return the list of results
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          */
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         List<T> getResults();
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         /**
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          * Gets the total number of records that match the executed query.  Note
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          * that this number will not necessarily match the number of results
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          * returned by {@link #getResults()} as the query may cut off the number
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          * of records returned by the actual query request.  In these cases, the
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          * total row count represents the total number of results which would be
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          * returned by the query if there was no cap on the results returned (i.e.
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          * the equivalent of the result of a "count" query in SQL).
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          * 
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          * <p>
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      * The total row count is optional depending on whether or not the
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          * client requested the total row count when invoking the query.  The client
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      * requests this information by setting the {@link CountFlag#INCLUDE} or
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      * {@link CountFlag#ONLY} on the {@link QueryByCriteria}.  It's also
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      * possible that the query is unable to produce a total row count depending
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          * on the back-end implementation, in which cases this value will also not
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          * be available.
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      * </p>
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      *
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      * <p>
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      * Will never be less than 0.
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      * <p>
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          * 
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          * @return the total number of rows, or null if the total row count was not
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          * requested by the query or could not be determined 
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          */
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         Integer getTotalRowCount();
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         /**
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          * Indicates if there are more results available for the query immediately
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          * following the last result that was returned.  In this case, the records
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          * returned in {@link #getResults()} will not include the complete result
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          * set for the query.  This could be because the query only requested a
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          * certain number of rows, or that the query couldn't return the number
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          * of rows that were requested.
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          * 
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          * <p>
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      * It is intended that this value be used to facilitate paging or
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          * reporting in the client in cases where that is desired.
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      * </p>
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      *
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      * <p>
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      * This information will only be available if the client sets a limit on the
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      * results returned.  This limit is set with the maxResults field on the
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      * {@link QueryByCriteria}.
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      * </p>
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          * 
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          * @return true if there are more results available for the query, false otherwise
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          */
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         boolean isMoreResultsAvailable();
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 }