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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.
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15   */
16  package org.kuali.rice.kew.impl.document.search;
17  
18  import org.kuali.rice.kew.api.document.search.DocumentSearchCriteria;
19  
20  import java.util.Map;
21  
22  /**
23   * Handles translating between parameters submitted to the document search and {@link org.kuali.rice.kew.api.document.search.DocumentSearchCriteria}.
24   *
25   * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
26   */
27  public interface DocumentSearchCriteriaTranslator {
28  
29      /**
30       * Translates the given map of fields values into a {@link org.kuali.rice.kew.api.document.search.DocumentSearchCriteria}.  The given map of
31       * field values is keyed based on the name of the field being submitted and the value represents that field value,
32       * which may contain wildcards and other logical operators supported by the KNS lookup framework.
33       *
34       * @param fieldValues the map of field names and values from which to populate the criteria
35       * @return populated document search criteria which contains the various criteria components populated based on the
36       * interpretation of the given field values
37       */
38      DocumentSearchCriteria translateFieldsToCriteria(Map<String, String> fieldValues);
39  
40      /**
41       * Translates the given {@link org.kuali.rice.kew.api.document.search.DocumentSearchCriteria} into a map of fields values.  Reverse of
42       * {@link #translateFieldsToCriteria(java.util.Map)}
43       *
44       * @param criteria document search criteria
45       * @return Map populated with the various criteria components
46       */
47      Map<String, String[]> translateCriteriaToFields(DocumentSearchCriteria criteria);
48  }