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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.
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16  package org.kuali.rice.kew.docsearch;
17  
18  import org.kuali.rice.core.api.uif.RemotableAttributeError;
19  import org.kuali.rice.kew.api.document.search.DocumentSearchCriteria;
20  import org.kuali.rice.kew.api.document.search.DocumentSearchResults;
21  import org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.document.search.DocumentSearchCriteriaConfiguration;
22  import org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.document.search.DocumentSearchResultSetConfiguration;
23  import org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.document.search.DocumentSearchResultValues;
24  import org.kuali.rice.kew.doctype.bo.DocumentType;
25  
26  import java.util.List;
27  
28  /**
29   * Handles communication between {@link org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.document.search.DocumentSearchCustomizationHandlerService}
30   * endpoints in order to invoke document search customizations which might be hosted from various applications.
31   *
32   * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
33   */
34  public interface DocumentSearchCustomizationMediator {
35  
36      /**
37       * Retrieves the document search criteria configuration for the given document type.  This should include attribute
38       * fields that should be included in the document search user interface when displaying criteria by which a user
39       * can search for documents.  If this method returns null then no additional criteria should be presented on the
40       * search screen.
41       *
42       * @param documentType the document type for which to find document search criteria configuration, must not be null
43       *
44       * @return configuration information containing additional criteria (beyond the default set) which should be
45       * displayed to the user when performing a search against documents of the given type, if null is returned this
46       * indicates that the default document search criteria configuration should be used
47       */
48      DocumentSearchCriteriaConfiguration getDocumentSearchCriteriaConfiguration(DocumentType documentType);
49  
50      /**
51       * Performs optional validation of document search criteria prior to execution of the search.
52       *
53       * @param documentType the document type against which the lookup is being performed
54       * @param documentSearchCriteria the criteria representing the submission of the document search
55       *
56       * @return a list of error messages generated by the validation, may an empty list in which case the calling code
57       * may safely ignore the response and assume that the given criteria validated successfully
58       */
59      List<RemotableAttributeError> validateLookupFieldParameters(DocumentType documentType,
60              DocumentSearchCriteria documentSearchCriteria);
61  
62      /**
63       * Optionally performs customization of the given document search criteria in the cases where the document type
64       * implements criteria customization.  If this method returns a non-null value, then the calling code should use
65       * the returned criteria in order to execute the search.  If this method returns a null value, it means the criteria
66       * that was given did not require any customization.  In this case, the calling code should proceed with search
67       * execution using the originally provided criteria.
68       *
69       * @param documentType the document type against which to perform the criteria customization, should never be null
70       * @param documentSearchCriteria the criteria to use as the starting point for customization
71       * 
72       * @return a customized version of the given criteria, or null if the criteria was not customized
73       */
74      DocumentSearchCriteria customizeCriteria(DocumentType documentType, DocumentSearchCriteria documentSearchCriteria);
75  
76      /**
77       * Optionally performs a custom clearing of the given document search criteria if the given document type
78       * implements a customized clear algorithm.  If this method returns a non-null value, then the value returned
79       * should be instated by the calling code as the "cleared" version of the criteria.  If null is returned, then the
80       * default implementation of criteria clearing should be used.
81       *
82       * @param documentType the document type against which to check for a custom implementation of criteria clearing
83       * @param documentSearchCriteria the current criteria of the document search prior to being cleared
84       *
85       * @return the result of clearing the criteria, if this returns null it means the given document type does not
86       * implement custom clearing and the default behavior should be used
87       */
88      DocumentSearchCriteria customizeClearCriteria(DocumentType documentType,
89              DocumentSearchCriteria documentSearchCriteria);
90  
91      /**
92       * Optionally performs customization on the given set of document search results.  This could include changing
93       * existing document values or synthesizing new ones.  The results of this method include a list of
94       * {@link org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.document.search.DocumentSearchResultValue} objects, each of which are mapped to a
95       * specific document id from the results and include additional key-value pairs for customized or synthesized
96       * values for that document.  This method can return a null value if no customization was performed.
97       *
98       * @param documentType the document type to use when determining what customization logic (if any) should be invoked
99       * @param documentSearchCriteria the criteria of the document search which produced the supplied results
100      * @param results the results of the document search which are being considered for customization
101      *
102      * @return the customized result values, or null if not result customization was performed
103      */
104     DocumentSearchResultValues customizeResults(DocumentType documentType,
105             DocumentSearchCriteria documentSearchCriteria,
106             DocumentSearchResults results);
107 
108     /**
109      * Optionally provides configuration information that allows for document search result set customization to occur.
110      * The resulting {@code DocumentSearchResultSetConfiguration} can be used by the calling code to determine how best
111      * to render the lookup results.
112      *
113      * @param documentType the document type for which to customize result set configuration
114      * @param documentSearchCriteria the criteria that was used to perform the lookup
115      *
116      * @return the customized document search result set configuration, or null if no result set customization was
117      * performed
118      */
119     DocumentSearchResultSetConfiguration customizeResultSetConfiguration(DocumentType documentType,
120             DocumentSearchCriteria documentSearchCriteria);
121 
122 }
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