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  * Copyright 2007-2009 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.

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 package org.kuali.rice.kim.api.entity.services;

 import org.kuali.rice.kim.bo.entity.dto.KimEntityDefaultInfo;

 /**

  * 

  * This service archives KimEntityDefaultInfo.  It's purpose is to provide long term 

  * storage for basic entity data that may be removed from the IdentityService implementation's 

  * backing store.

  * 

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

  *

  */

 public interface IdentityArchiveService {

         /**

          * Gets the KimEntityDefaultInfo from the cache for the given entityId.

          */

     KimEntityDefaultInfo getEntityDefaultInfoFromArchive( String entityId );

         /**

          * Gets the KimEntityDefaultInfo from the cache for the entity with the given principalId.

          */

     KimEntityDefaultInfo getEntityDefaultInfoFromArchiveByPrincipalId( String principalId );

         /**

          * Gets the KimEntityDefaultInfo from the cache for the entity with the given principalName.

          */

         KimEntityDefaultInfo getEntityDefaultInfoFromArchiveByPrincipalName( String principalName );

         /**

          * Saves the given KimEntityDefaultInfo into the cache.

          */

         void saveDefaultInfoToArchive( KimEntityDefaultInfo entity );

 }