001    /**
002     * Copyright 2005-2011 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.krad.service;
017    
018    import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.BusinessObject;
019    
020    
021    /**
022     * Provides access to sequence numbers.
023     * 
024     * 
025     */
026    public interface SequenceAccessorService {
027        /**
028         * This method retrieves the next available sequence number using the
029         * dataSource that is associated with the specified BusinessObject class.
030         * 
031         * @return next available sequence number
032         */ 
033            public Long getNextAvailableSequenceNumber(String sequenceName, 
034                            Class<? extends BusinessObject> clazz);
035            
036        /**
037         * This method retrieves the next available sequence number
038         * 
039         * @return next available sequence number
040         */
041        public Long getNextAvailableSequenceNumber(String sequenceName);
042    }