package org.kuali.rice.kim.api.type;

 import java.util.List;

 import java.util.Map;

 /**

  *  This is the base service interface for handling type-specific behavior.  Types can be attached

  *  to various objects (currently groups and roles) in KIM to add additional attributes and

  *  modify their behavior.

  *

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

  *

  */

 public interface KimTypeServiceTemp {

     /**

          * Get the workflow document type which

          * will be used for the role qualifiers when routing objects with this type.

          *

          * If no special document type is needed, this method must return null.

          */

         String getWorkflowDocumentTypeName();

         /**

          * Perform validation on the attributes of an object.  The resultant map

          * will contain (attributeName,errorMessage) pairs from the validation process.

          * An empty attributes indicates that there were no errors.

          *

          * This method can be used to perform compound validations across multiple

          * attributes attached to an object.

          */

         Map<String, String> validateAttributes(String kimTypeId, Map<String, String> attributes);

         Map<String, String> validateAttributesAgainstExisting(String kimTypeId, Map<String, String> newAttributes, Map<String, String> oldAttributes);

         Map<String, String> validateUnmodifiableAttributes(String kimTypeId, Map<String, String> mainAttributes, Map<String, String> delegationAttributes);

         boolean validateUniqueAttributes(String kimTypeId, Map<String, String> newAttributes, Map<String, String> oldAttributes);

     Map<String, String> getAttributeValidValues(String kimTypeId, String attributeName);

     List<String> getWorkflowRoutingAttributes( String routeLevel );

     List<String> getUniqueAttributes(String kimTypeId);

 }