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,
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.core.api.criteria;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.util.jaxb.EnumStringAdapter;
19
20 /**
21 * Defines possible directives for how a query is requested to produce count values in it's results.
22 *
23 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
24 *
25 */
26 public enum OrderDirection {
27
28 /**
29 * Indicates that rows will be returned in Ascending order.
30 */
31 ASCENDING,
32
33 /**
34 * Indicates that rows will be returned in descending order.
35 */
36 DESCENDING;
37
38 /**
39 * Returns the value of the count flag.
40 *
41 * @return the flag
42 */
43 public String getDirection() {
44 return toString();
45 }
46
47 static final class Adapter extends EnumStringAdapter<OrderDirection> {
48
49 protected Class<OrderDirection> getEnumClass() {
50 return OrderDirection.class;
51 }
52
53 }
54
55 }