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
.Collection
;
14 import java
.util
.List
;
18 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.model
.common
.CdmBase
;
19 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.model
.common
.CdmMetaData
;
20 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.model
.common
.ISourceable
;
21 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.model
.common
.OriginalSource
;
22 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.model
.common
.CdmMetaData
.MetaDataPropertyName
;
23 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.strategy
.match
.IMatchStrategy
;
24 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.strategy
.match
.IMatchable
;
25 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.strategy
.match
.MatchException
;
26 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.strategy
.merge
.IMergable
;
27 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.strategy
.merge
.IMergeStrategy
;
28 import eu
.etaxonomy
.cdm
.strategy
.merge
.MergeException
;
31 public interface ICommonService
extends IService
<OriginalSource
>{
33 // /** find cdmBase by UUID**/
34 // public abstract CdmBase getCdmBaseByUuid(UUID uuid);
36 // /** save a reference and return its UUID**/
37 // public abstract UUID saveCdmBase(CdmBase cdmBase);
42 public void saveAll(Collection
<CdmMetaData
> metaData
);
44 public Map
<MetaDataPropertyName
, CdmMetaData
> getCdmMetaData();
47 /** find cdmBase by UUID**/
48 public ISourceable
getSourcedObjectByIdInSource(Class clazz
, String idInSource
, String idNamespace
);
52 * Returns all CdmBase objects that reference the referencedCdmBase.
53 * For example, if referencedCdmBase is an agent it may return all taxon names
54 * that have this person as an author but also all books, articles, etc. that have
55 * this person as an author
56 * @param referencedCdmBase
59 public Set
<CdmBase
> getReferencingObjects(CdmBase referencedCdmBase
);
62 * Merges mergeSecond into mergeFirst. All references to mergeSecond will be replaced by references
63 * to merge first. If no merge strategy is defined (null), the DefaultMergeStrategy will be taken as default.
67 * @param mergeStrategy
68 * @throws MergeException
70 public <T
extends IMergable
> void merge(T mergeFirst
, T mergeSecond
, IMergeStrategy mergeStrategy
) throws MergeException
;
73 * Returns all objects that match the object to match according to the given match strategy.
74 * If no match strategy is defined the default match strategy is taken.
76 * @param objectToMatch
77 * @param matchStrategy
79 * @throws MatchException
81 public <T
extends IMatchable
> List
<T
> findMatching(T objectToMatch
, IMatchStrategy matchStrategy
) throws MatchException
;
84 public List
getHqlResult(String hqlQuery
);