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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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.dao;
17
18 import java.util.Collection;
19 import java.util.Map;
20
21 /**
22 * Defines basic methods that Lookup Dao's must provide
23 *
24 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
25 */
26 public interface LookupDao {
27 public <T extends Object> Collection<T> findCollectionBySearchHelper(
28 Class<T> example, Map<String, String> formProps, boolean unbounded,
29 boolean usePrimaryKeyValuesOnly);
30
31 /**
32 * Retrieves a Object based on the search criteria, which should uniquely
33 * identify a record.
34 *
35 * @return Object returned from the search
36 */
37 public <T extends Object> T findObjectByMap(T example, Map<String, String> formProps);
38
39 /**
40 * Returns a count of objects based on the given search parameters.
41 *
42 * @return Long returned from the search
43 */
44 public Long findCountByMap(Object example, Map<String, String> formProps);
45
46 /**
47 * Create OJB criteria based on business object, search field and value
48 *
49 * @return true if the criteria is created successfully; otherwise, return
50 * false
51 */
52 public boolean createCriteria(Object example, String searchValue,
53 String propertyName, Object criteria);
54
55 /**
56 * Create OJB criteria based on business object, search field and value
57 *
58 * @return true if the criteria is created successfully; otherwise, return
59 * false
60 */
61 public boolean createCriteria(Object example, String searchValue,
62 String propertyName, boolean caseInsensitive,
63 boolean treatWildcardsAndOperatorsAsLiteral, Object criteria);
64 }