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| 1 | /* | |
| 2 | * Copyright 2009 The Kuali Foundation | |
| 3 | * | |
| 4 | * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 1.0 (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/ecl1.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.student.common.infc; | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | import java.util.List; | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | /** | |
| 21 | * Criteria for a generic query | |
| 22 | */ | |
| 23 | public interface Comparison { | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | ||
| 26 | /** | |
| 27 | * Name: Field Key | |
| 28 | * | |
| 29 | * Dot path notation to identity the name of field to be compared | |
| 30 | */ | |
| 31 | public String getFieldKey(); | |
| 32 | ||
| 33 | /** | |
| 34 | * Name: Operator | |
| 35 | * | |
| 36 | * Operator to use to compare the field to the value. The valid values are:<ol> | |
| 37 | * <li>= | |
| 38 | * <li>in | |
| 39 | * <li>< | |
| 40 | * <li>!= | |
| 41 | * <li>>= | |
| 42 | * <li><= | |
| 43 | * <li>like | |
| 44 | * <li>between | |
| 45 | * </ol> | |
| 46 | * The operators should work similar to their corresponding SQL operators. | |
| 47 | * | |
| 48 | * Complex objects can only be checked to see if they are null or not null. | |
| 49 | * "in" operator takes a list of values | |
| 50 | * "between" operator takes two values for from and thru inclusive | |
| 51 | * all others take a single value | |
| 52 | * | |
| 53 | * TODO: Decide for complex Lists can they be checked to see how many occurences they have? | |
| 54 | * TODO: Decide on other operators | |
| 55 | * TODO: Deicde on operators to search collections inside such as any | |
| 56 | * TODO: Decide how to search on dynamic attributes | |
| 57 | * | |
| 58 | */ | |
| 59 | public String getOperator(); | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | /** | |
| 62 | * Name: Criteria Value(s) | |
| 63 | * | |
| 64 | * Value to be compared | |
| 65 | */ | |
| 66 | public List<String> getValues(); | |
| 67 | ||
| 68 | /** | |
| 69 | * Name: Ignore Case? | |
| 70 | * | |
| 71 | * Check if should ignore case when doing the comparison | |
| 72 | * Default is false | |
| 73 | * If true then the case of both the specified comparison value(s) and the data value from the field should be ignored | |
| 74 | */ | |
| 75 | public boolean isIgnoreCase (); | |
| 76 | } |