X-Git-Url: https://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/gitweb/cdmlib.git/blobdiff_plain/3986faa0e3b1b3c99f989ef34655e0e5fe516c3b..HEAD:/cdmlib-services/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/api/service/IPreferenceService.java

diff --git a/cdmlib-services/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/api/service/IPreferenceService.java b/cdmlib-services/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/api/service/IPreferenceService.java
index 54f1d5891a..afa8b3db5e 100644
--- a/cdmlib-services/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/api/service/IPreferenceService.java
+++ b/cdmlib-services/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/api/service/IPreferenceService.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.common.CdmBase;
 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.metadata.CdmPreference;
 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.metadata.CdmPreference.PrefKey;
 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.metadata.IPreferencePredicate;
+import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.metadata.PreferenceResolver;
 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.metadata.PreferenceSubject;
 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.taxon.TaxonNode;
 
@@ -45,6 +46,15 @@ public interface IPreferenceService {
       */
      public List<CdmPreference> list();
 
+     /**
+     * Returns all matching preferences for the given predicate. Use
+     * {@link #find(PrefKey)} to find the best matching preference
+     * or use {@link PreferenceResolver} to resolve the best matching
+     * preference on client side.
+     * @param predicate
+     * @return
+     */
+    public List<CdmPreference> list(IPreferencePredicate<?> predicate);
 
      /**
      * Retrieve all matching values for the given preference key.
@@ -62,6 +72,13 @@ public interface IPreferenceService {
       */
      public CdmPreference find(PrefKey key);
 
+    /**
+     * Retrieve the preference that has a key exactly matching the given key.
+     * @param key
+     * @return
+     */
+    public CdmPreference findExact(PrefKey key);
+
 
   // Can not yet be created as we allow only PreferencePredicate for predicate key creation now.
 //     /**
@@ -110,7 +127,7 @@ public interface IPreferenceService {
       * @param predicate
       * @return
       */
-     public Object find(TaxonNode taxonNode, String predicate);
+     public CdmPreference find(TaxonNode taxonNode, String predicate);
 
      public CdmPreference find(TaxonNode taxonNode, IPreferencePredicate<?> predicate);
 
@@ -140,6 +157,12 @@ public interface IPreferenceService {
      public void set(CdmPreference preference);
 
 
+    /**
+     * @param preference
+     */
+    void remove(PrefKey preference);
+
+
 
      //we need to decide if we want to keep this method
 //     //returns old value