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1   /**
2    * Copyright 2005-2013 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.kim.impl.identity;
17  
18  import org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault;
19  
20  /**
21   * 
22   * This service archives EntityDefault.  It's purpose is to provide long term 
23   * storage for basic identity data that may be removed from the IdentityService implementation's
24   * backing store.
25   * 
26   * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
27   *
28   */
29  public interface IdentityArchiveService {
30  
31      /**
32       * Gets a {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} with an id from the archive.
33       * {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} is a condensed version of {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.Entity} that contains
34       * default values of its subclasses
35       *
36       * <p>
37       *   This method will return null if the Entity does not exist.
38       * </p>
39       *
40       * @param id the unique id to retrieve the entity by. cannot be null.
41       * @return a {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} or null
42       * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the id is blank
43       */
44      EntityDefault getEntityDefaultFromArchive(String id ) throws IllegalArgumentException;
45  
46  	/**
47       * Gets a {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} with an principalId from the archive.
48       * {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} is a condensed version of {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.Entity} that contains
49       * default values of its subclasses
50       *
51       * <p>
52       *   This method will return null if the Entity does not exist.
53       * </p>
54       *
55       * @param principalId the unique principalId to retrieve the entity by. cannot be null.
56       * @return a {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} or null
57       * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the principalId is blank
58       */
59      EntityDefault getEntityDefaultFromArchiveByPrincipalId(String principalId) throws IllegalArgumentException;
60  
61  	/**
62       * Gets a {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} with an principalName from the archive.
63       * {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} is a condensed version of {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.Entity} that contains
64       * default values of its subclasses
65       *
66       * <p>
67       *   This method will return null if the Entity does not exist.
68       * </p>
69       *
70       * @param principalName the unique principalName to retrieve the entity by. cannot be null.
71       * @return a {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} or null
72       * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the principalName is blank
73       */
74  	EntityDefault getEntityDefaultFromArchiveByPrincipalName(String principalName) throws IllegalArgumentException;
75  	
76      /**
77       * Gets a {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} with an employeeId from the archive.
78       * {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} is a condensed version of {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.Entity} that contains
79       * default values of its subclasses
80       *
81       * <p>
82       *   This method will return null if the Entity does not exist.
83       * </p>
84       *
85       * @param employeeId the unique employeeId to retrieve the entity by. cannot be null.
86       * @return a {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} or null
87       * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the employeeId is blank
88       */
89      EntityDefault getEntityDefaultFromArchiveByEmployeeId(String employeeId) throws IllegalArgumentException;
90      
91  	/**
92       * Saves a {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} to the archive.
93       * {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} is a condensed version of {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.Entity} that contains
94       * default values of its subclasses
95       *
96       * <p>
97       *   This method will return the saved EntityDefault object
98       * </p>
99       *
100      * @param entityDefault the unique principalName to retrieve the entity by. cannot be null.
101      * @return a {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} or null
102      * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the entityDefault is null
103      */
104     //TODO: this should probably return some kind of Future<EntityDefault> if we can find a way to remote that
105 	void saveEntityDefaultToArchive(EntityDefault entityDefault) throws IllegalArgumentException;
106 
107     /**
108      * Flushes {@link org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.entity.EntityDefault} to the archive.
109      *
110      * <p>
111      *   This method flushes the "saved" entities to the database
112      * </p>
113      *
114      * @return void
115      */
116     void flushToArchive() throws IllegalArgumentException;
117 	
118 }