cdmlib-services/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/api/service/ICollectionService.java

   1 /**
   2 * Copyright (C) 2009 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.api.service;
  11
  12 import java.util.List;
  13
  14 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.api.service.pager.Pager;
  15 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.common.UuidAndTitleCache;
  16 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.occurrence.Collection;
  17 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.occurrence.SpecimenOrObservationBase;
  18
  19 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.persistence.query.OrderHint;
  20
  21 public interface ICollectionService extends     IIdentifiableEntityService<Collection> {
  22
  23         /**
  24          * Returns a Paged List of Collection instances where the default field matches the String queryString (as interpreted by the Lucene QueryParser)
  25          *
  26          * @param clazz filter the results by class (or pass null to return all Collection instances)
  27          * @param queryString
  28          * @param pageSize The maximum number of collections returned (can be null for all matching collections)
  29          * @param pageNumber The offset (in pageSize chunks) from the start of the result set (0 - based)
  30          * @param orderHints
  31          *            Supports path like <code>orderHints.propertyNames</code> which
  32          *            include *-to-one properties like createdBy.username or
  33          *            authorTeam.persistentTitleCache
  34          * @param propertyPaths properties to be initialized
  35          * @return a Pager Collection instances
  36          * @see <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/queryparsersyntax.html">Apache Lucene - Query Parser Syntax</a>
  37          */
  38         public Pager<Collection> search(Class<? extends Collection> clazz, String query, Integer pageSize,Integer pageNumber, List<OrderHint> orderHints,List<String> propertyPaths);
  39
  40         /**
  41          * Return a list of collections matching the given code
  42          * @param code
  43          * @return a List of Collection objects
  44          */
  45         public List<Collection> searchByCode(String code);
  46 }