cdmlib-persistence/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/persistence/dao/description/IIdentificationKeyDao.java

   1 /**
   2 * Copyright (C) 2007 EDIT
   3 * European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
   4 * http://www.e-taxonomy.eu
   5 *
   6 * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1
   7 * See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.
   8 */
   9
  10 package eu.etaxonomy.cdm.persistence.dao.description;
  11
  12 import java.util.Collection;
  13 import java.util.List;
  14 import java.util.Map;
  15 import java.util.Set;
  16 import java.util.UUID;
  17
  18 import org.hibernate.LockMode;
  19 import org.hibernate.Session;
  20 import org.springframework.dao.DataAccessException;
  21
  22 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.common.CdmBase;
  23 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.description.IIdentificationKey;
  24 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.persistence.dao.BeanInitializer;
  25 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.persistence.query.Grouping;
  26 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.persistence.query.OrderHint;
  27
  28 /**
  29  * A read-only interface to allow querying across all IIdentificationKey instances, regardless of type
  30  * @author ben.clark
  31  * @version 1.0
  32  * @created 21-Dec-2009 13:48:10
  33  */
  34 public interface IIdentificationKeyDao {
  35
  36
  37         /**
  38          * Returns a sublist of IIdentificationKey instances stored in the database. A maximum
  39          * of 'limit' objects are returned, starting at object with index 'start'.
  40          *
  41          * @param type
  42          * @param limit
  43          *            the maximum number of entities returned (can be null to return
  44          *            all entities)
  45          * @param start
  46          * @return
  47          * @throws DataAccessException
  48          */
  49         public List<IIdentificationKey> list(Integer limit, Integer start, List<String> propertyPaths);
  50
  51         /**
  52          * Returns the number of objects of type IIdentificationKey
  53          * @return
  54          */
  55         public int count();
  56 }