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| 1 | /* | |
| 2 | * Copyright 2011 The Kuali Foundation | |
| 3 | * | |
| 4 | * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 1.0 (the "License"); | |
| 5 | * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. | |
| 6 | * You may obtain a copy of the License at | |
| 7 | * | |
| 8 | * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php | |
| 9 | * | |
| 10 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software | |
| 11 | * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, | |
| 12 | * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. | |
| 13 | * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and | |
| 14 | * limitations under the License. | |
| 15 | */ | |
| 16 | package org.kuali.rice.core.api.criteria; | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | ||
| 19 | import java.util.List; | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | /** | |
| 22 | * Contains a collection of results from a query. This interface exists as a | |
| 23 | * utility for services that want to implement it to represents results from | |
| 24 | * criteria-based (or other) queries. | |
| 25 | * | |
| 26 | * <p> | |
| 27 | * Also may provide information related to the count of rows returned | |
| 28 | * by the query as well as whether or not the query returned all available results. | |
| 29 | * </p> | |
| 30 | * | |
| 31 | * <p> | |
| 32 | * All the information in this interface is populated depending on the information | |
| 33 | * requested via the {@link QueryByCriteria}. | |
| 34 | * </p> | |
| 35 | * | |
| 36 | * @param <T> the type of the objects contained within the results list | |
| 37 | * | |
| 38 | * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org) | |
| 39 | * | |
| 40 | */ | |
| 41 | public interface QueryResults<T> { | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | /** | |
| 44 | * Return the list of results that are contained within. This list can | |
| 45 | * be empty but it should never be null. | |
| 46 | * | |
| 47 | * @return the list of results | |
| 48 | */ | |
| 49 | List<T> getResults(); | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | /** | |
| 52 | * Gets the total number of records that match the executed query. Note | |
| 53 | * that this number will not necessarily match the number of results | |
| 54 | * returned by {@link #getResults()} as the query may cut off the number | |
| 55 | * of records returned by the actual query request. In these cases, the | |
| 56 | * total row count represents the total number of results which would be | |
| 57 | * returned by the query if there was no cap on the results returned (i.e. | |
| 58 | * the equivalent of the result of a "count" query in SQL). | |
| 59 | * | |
| 60 | * <p> | |
| 61 | * The total row count is optional depending on whether or not the | |
| 62 | * client requested the total row count when invoking the query. The client | |
| 63 | * requests this information by setting the {@link CountFlag#INCLUDE} or | |
| 64 | * {@link CountFlag#ONLY} on the {@link QueryByCriteria}. It's also | |
| 65 | * possible that the query is unable to produce a total row count depending | |
| 66 | * on the back-end implementation, in which cases this value will also not | |
| 67 | * be available. | |
| 68 | * </p> | |
| 69 | * | |
| 70 | * <p> | |
| 71 | * Will never be less than 0. | |
| 72 | * <p> | |
| 73 | * | |
| 74 | * @return the total number of rows, or null if the total row count was not | |
| 75 | * requested by the query or could not be determined | |
| 76 | */ | |
| 77 | Integer getTotalRowCount(); | |
| 78 | ||
| 79 | /** | |
| 80 | * Indicates if there are more results available for the query immediately | |
| 81 | * following the last result that was returned. In this case, the records | |
| 82 | * returned in {@link #getResults()} will not include the complete result | |
| 83 | * set for the query. This could be because the query only requested a | |
| 84 | * certain number of rows, or that the query couldn't return the number | |
| 85 | * of rows that were requested. | |
| 86 | * | |
| 87 | * <p> | |
| 88 | * It is intended that this value be used to facilitate paging or | |
| 89 | * reporting in the client in cases where that is desired. | |
| 90 | * </p> | |
| 91 | * | |
| 92 | * <p> | |
| 93 | * This information will only be available if the client sets a limit on the | |
| 94 | * results returned. This limit is set with the maxResults field on the | |
| 95 | * {@link QueryByCriteria}. | |
| 96 | * </p> | |
| 97 | * | |
| 98 | * @return true if there are more results available for the query, false otherwise | |
| 99 | */ | |
| 100 | boolean isMoreResultsAvailable(); | |
| 101 | } |