org.kuali.rice.kew.impl.document.search
Interface DocumentSearchCriteriaTranslator

All Known Implementing Classes:

DocumentSearchCriteriaTranslatorImpl

public interface DocumentSearchCriteriaTranslator

Handles translating between parameters submitted to the document search and DocumentSearchCriteria.

Author:

Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

Method Summary

Map<String,String[]>	translateCriteriaToFields(DocumentSearchCriteria criteria) Translates the given DocumentSearchCriteria into a map of fields values.
DocumentSearchCriteria	translateFieldsToCriteria(Map<String,String> fieldValues) Translates the given map of fields values into a DocumentSearchCriteria.

Method Detail

translateFieldsToCriteria

DocumentSearchCriteria translateFieldsToCriteria(Map<String,String> fieldValues)

Translates the given map of fields values into a DocumentSearchCriteria. The given map of field values is keyed based on the name of the field being submitted and the value represents that field value, which may contain wildcards and other logical operators supported by the KNS lookup framework.

Parameters:

fieldValues - the map of field names and values from which to populate the criteria

Returns:

populated document search criteria which contains the various criteria components populated based on the interpretation of the given field values

translateCriteriaToFields

Map<String,String[]> translateCriteriaToFields(DocumentSearchCriteria criteria)

Translates the given DocumentSearchCriteria into a map of fields values. Reverse of translateFieldsToCriteria(java.util.Map)

Parameters:

criteria - document search criteria

Returns:

Map populated with the various criteria components