/*

  * Copyright 2005-2007 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.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  *

  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

  * limitations under the License.

  */

 package org.kuali.rice.core.impl.style;

 import java.util.List;

 /**

  * Defines data access operations related to {@link StyleBo}.

  * 

  * @see StyleBo

  * 

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

  *

  */

 public interface StyleDao {

         /**

          * Updates or creates the given style in the data store. 

          * 

          * @param style the style to save, if null then this method will do nothing

          */

     void saveStyle(StyleBo style);

     /**

      * Returns the style with the given name from the data store.

      * 

      * @param styleName the name of the style to retrieve

      * @return the style with the given name, or null if it does not exist

      */

     StyleBo getStyle(String styleName);

     /**

      * Return a list of the names of all styles that exist in the data store.

      * This method ...

      * 

      * @return

      */

     List<String> getAllStyleNames();

 }