/**

  * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  *

  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

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 package org.kuali.rice.kew.doctype.service;

 import java.util.Collection;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.framework.impex.xml.XmlLoader;

 import org.kuali.rice.kew.doctype.bo.DocumentType;

 /**

  * A service for querying document type stuff for plugins without exposing the document type service.

  * 

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  */

 public interface DocumentTypeQueryService extends XmlLoader {

     public DocumentType findById(String documentTypeId);

     public DocumentType findByName(String name);

     public Collection<DocumentType> find(DocumentType documentType, String docGroupName, boolean climbHierarchy);

     public DocumentType findRootDocumentType(DocumentType docType);

     /**

      * Returns the DocumentType of the Document with the given ID. 

      * 

      * @since 2.3

      */

     public DocumentType findByDocumentId(String documentId);

 }