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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
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15   */
16  package org.kuali.rice.krad.service;
17  
18  import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.Attachment;
19  import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.Note;
20  import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.PersistableBusinessObject;
21  
22  import java.io.IOException;
23  import java.io.InputStream;
24  
25  /**
26   * Defines the methods common to all AttachmentService implementations
27   *
28   * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
29   */
30  public interface AttachmentService {
31      /**
32       * Stores the given fileContents and returns referring Attachment object which acts as a momento to the archived object.
33       *
34       * @param parent - the document to which the attachment belongs
35       * @param uploadedFileName - the name of the uploaded file
36       * @param mimeType - the uploaded file's mime type
37       * @param  fileSize - the size of the uploaded file in bytes
38       * @param  fileContents - an input stream used to read the file's contents
39       * @param attachmentType -the attachment type code
40       *
41       * @return Attachment - the attachment, having been written to the file system
42       * @throws IOException
43       */
44      public Attachment createAttachment(PersistableBusinessObject parent, String uploadedFileName, String mimeType, int fileSize, InputStream fileContents, String attachmentType) throws IOException;
45  
46      /**
47       * Retrieves a given Attachments contents from the corresponding Attachment object
48       *
49       * @param attachment - the attachment whose contents are to be retrieved
50       *
51       * @return OutputStream
52       * @throws IOException
53       */
54      public InputStream retrieveAttachmentContents(Attachment attachment) throws IOException;
55  
56      /**
57       * Deletes a given DocumentAttachment contents from the corresponding Attachment object
58       *
59       * @param attachment - the attachment whose contents are to be deleted
60       */
61      public void deleteAttachmentContents(Attachment attachment);
62      
63      /**
64       * 
65       * Moves attachments on notes from the pending directory to the real one
66       * @param note the Note from which to move attachments.  If this Note does not
67       * have an attachment then this method does nothing.
68       * 
69       * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the given Note is null
70       * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the Note does not have a valid object id
71       */
72      public void moveAttachmentWherePending(Note note);
73      
74      /**
75       * Deletes pending attachments that were last modified before the given time.  Java does not have easy access to a file's creation
76       * time, so we use modification time instead.
77       * 
78       * @param modificationTime the number of milliseconds since "the epoch" (i.e.January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT).  java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar's
79       *  methods return time in this format.  If a pending attachment was modified before this time, then it will be deleted (unless an error occurs)
80       */
81      public void deletePendingAttachmentsModifiedBefore(long modificationTime);
82      
83      public Attachment getAttachmentByNoteId(Long noteId);
84  }