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016 package org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity;
017
018 import java.util.List;
019 import java.util.Map;
020
021 import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.BusinessObject;
022
023 /**
024 *
025 * This service acts as a facade on the entity information that is provided
026 * through the IdentityService and provides a "person-centric" view of that
027 * entity data.
028 *
029 * <p>In general, the Person object flattens out the various related pieces of
030 * entity data into a denormalized view on that data. In many cases, that
031 * data will have a defined "default" value in the entity data model. This
032 * default data is what the Person object will be constructed with. For
033 * example, an entity can have more than one name, but one of those names
034 * is flagged as the default.
035 *
036 * <p>This service will do it's best to construct valid Person objects even
037 * for entities that don't have an entity type of "PERSON". In those cases
038 * not all of the attributes on the Person object will be populated.
039 *
040 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
041 *
042 */
043 public interface PersonService {
044
045 /**
046 * Retrieve a single Person object by Principal ID.
047 */
048 Person getPerson( String principalId );
049
050 /**
051 * Retrieve a person by an arbitrary external identifier. This method could
052 * potentially return multiple results as there is no guarantee of uniqueness
053 * for external identifiers.
054 *
055 * @param externalIdentifierTypeCode Type of external identifier to search for.
056 * @param externalId The external identifier.
057 * @return List of Person objects.
058 */
059 List<Person> getPersonByExternalIdentifier( String externalIdentifierTypeCode, String externalId );
060
061 /**
062 * Gets a single Person by their principal name (user ID).
063 */
064 Person getPersonByPrincipalName( String principalName );
065
066 /**
067 * Gets a single Person by their employee id.
068 */
069 Person getPersonByEmployeeId( String employeeId );
070
071 /**
072 * Perform an unbounded search for person records.
073 */
074 List<Person> findPeople( Map<String, String> criteria );
075
076 /**
077 * Perform a Person lookup. If bounded, it will follow the configured KNS lookup limit.
078 */
079 List<Person> findPeople( Map<String, String> criteria, boolean unbounded );
080
081 /**
082 * Get the class object which points to the class used by the underlying implementation.
083 *
084 * This can be used by implementors who may need to construct Person objects without wishing to bind their code
085 * to a specific implementation.
086 */
087 Class<? extends Person> getPersonImplementationClass();
088
089 /**
090 * This method takes a map on its way to populate a business object and replaces all
091 * user identifiers with their corresponding universal users
092 */
093 Map<String, String> resolvePrincipalNamesToPrincipalIds( BusinessObject businessObject, Map<String, String> fieldValues );
094
095 /**
096 * Compares the Principal ID passed in with that in the Person object. If they are the same, it returns the
097 * original object. Otherwise, it pulls the Person from KIM based on the sourcePrincipalId.
098 */
099 Person updatePersonIfNecessary(String sourcePrincipalId, Person currentPerson );
100
101 }