1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2012 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.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.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,
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13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krms.impl.repository;
17
18 import java.util.List;
19
20 import org.kuali.rice.krms.api.repository.term.TermDefinition;
21 import org.kuali.rice.krms.api.repository.term.TermResolverDefinition;
22 import org.kuali.rice.krms.api.repository.term.TermSpecificationDefinition;
23
24 /**
25 * BO service for terms and related entities
26 *
27 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
28 *
29 */
30 public interface TermBoService {
31
32 // TODO: javadocs
33
34 TermSpecificationDefinition getTermSpecificationById(String id);
35 TermSpecificationDefinition createTermSpecification(TermSpecificationDefinition termSpec);
36
37 TermDefinition getTermById(String id);
38 TermDefinition createTermDefinition(TermDefinition termDef);
39
40 TermResolverDefinition getTermResolverById(String id);
41
42 /**
43 * Get the {@link TermResolverDefinition}s for any term resolvers in the specified namespace that have the given
44 * term specification as their output.
45 *
46 * @param id the id for the term specification
47 * @param namespace the namespace to search
48 * @return the List of term resolvers found. If none are found, an empty list will be returned.
49 */
50 List<TermResolverDefinition> getTermResolversByOutputId(String id, String namespace);
51
52 List<TermResolverDefinition> getTermResolversByNamespace(String namespace);
53 TermResolverDefinition createTermResolver(TermResolverDefinition termResolver);
54 }