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,
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 public interface CriteriaLookupService {
19
20 /**
21 * Looks up a type based on a query criteria.
22 *
23 * @param queryClass the class to lookup
24 * @param criteria the criteria to lookup against. cannot be null.
25 * @param <T> the type that is being looked up.
26 * @return the results. will never be null.
27 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the criteria is null
28 */
29 <T> GenericQueryResults<T> lookup(final Class<T> queryClass, final QueryByCriteria criteria);
30
31 /**
32 * Looks up a type based on a query criteria.
33 *
34 * @param queryClass the class to lookup
35 * @param criteria the criteria to lookup against. cannot be null.
36 * @param <T> the type that is being looked up.
37 * @return the results. will never be null.
38 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the criteria is null
39 */
40 <T> GenericQueryResults<T> lookup(final Class<T> queryClass, final QueryByCriteria criteria, final LookupCustomizer<T> customizer);
41 }