3 * Copyright (C) 2007 EDIT
4 * European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
5 * http://www.e-taxonomy.eu
7 * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1
8 * See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.
11 package eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.api
.service
;
13 import java
.util
.List
;
14 import java
.util
.UUID
;
16 import org
.hibernate
.criterion
.Criterion
;
17 import org
.springframework
.security
.provisioning
.GroupManager
;
19 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.model
.common
.Group
;
20 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.persistence
.dao
.initializer
.IBeanInitializer
;
21 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.persistence
.query
.MatchMode
;
22 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.persistence
.query
.OrderHint
;
26 * @created Mar 9, 2011
29 public interface IGroupService
extends IService
<Group
>, GroupManager
{
33 * Return a List of groups matching the given query string, optionally filtered by class, optionally with a particular MatchMode
35 * @param queryString the query string to filter by
36 * @param matchmode use a particular type of matching (can be null - defaults to exact matching)
37 * @param criteria additional criteria to filter by
38 * @param pageSize The maximum number of objects returned (can be null for all objects)
39 * @param pageNumber The offset (in pageSize chunks) from the start of the result set (0 - based)
40 * @param propertyPaths properties to initialize - see {@link IBeanInitializer#initialize(Object, List)}
42 * Supports path like <code>orderHints.propertyNames</code> which
43 * include *-to-one properties like createdBy.username or
44 * authorTeam.persistentTitleCache
45 * @return a list of instances of type Group matching the queryString
47 * @see {@link IIdentifiableEntityService#listByTitle(Class, String, MatchMode, List, Integer, Integer, List, List)}
49 public List
<Group
> listByName(String queryString
, MatchMode matchmode
, List
<Criterion
> criteria
, Integer pageSize
, Integer pageNumber
, List
<OrderHint
> orderHints
, List
<String
> propertyPaths
);
51 public UUID
saveGroup(Group group
);