1 /*
2 * Copyright 2007 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.ken.service;
17
18 import java.util.Collection;
19
20 /**
21 * The NotificationRecipientService class is responsible for housing user/group related services.
22 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
23 */
24 public interface NotificationRecipientService {
25 /**
26 * This method handles figuring out which recipient type that you are deling with and calls
27 * the appropriate validation method.
28 * @param recipientId
29 * @param recipientType
30 * @return boolean
31 */
32 public boolean isRecipientValid(String recipientId, String recipientType);
33
34 /**
35 * This service method checks to make sure that the user recipient is a valid user in the system.
36 * @param userRecipientId
37 * @return boolean
38 */
39 public boolean isUserRecipientValid(String userRecipientId);
40
41 /**
42 * This service method checks to make sure that the group recipient is a valid group in the system.
43 * @param groupRecipientId
44 * @return boolean
45 */
46 public boolean isGroupRecipientValid(String groupRecipientId);
47
48 /**
49 * This service method will retrieve all of the user recipients ids that belong to a group.
50 * @param groupRecipientId
51 * @return A String array of user recipient ids that belong to the specified recipient group id.
52 */
53 public String[] getGroupMembers(String groupRecipientId);
54
55
56 /**
57 * This method retrieves the display name for a user.
58 * @param userId
59 * @return String
60 */
61 public String getUserDisplayName(String userId);
62 }