X-Git-Url: https://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/gitweb/cdmlib.git/blobdiff_plain/4cae2e6d622c950cf78c2cff3bc0e389b8ebc72e..80f4156015214f4f25fe82f2c373a8d1011caa74:/cdmlib-services/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/api/service/IDescriptionService.java

diff --git a/cdmlib-services/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/api/service/IDescriptionService.java b/cdmlib-services/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/api/service/IDescriptionService.java
index 3a5771effb..aee1ee08e2 100644
--- a/cdmlib-services/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/api/service/IDescriptionService.java
+++ b/cdmlib-services/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/api/service/IDescriptionService.java
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ public interface IDescriptionService extends IIdentifiableEntityService<Descript
      */
     public Pager<Media> getMedia(DescriptionElementBase descriptionElement, Integer pageSize, Integer pageNumber, List<String> propertyPaths);
     
-    public List<DescriptionElementBase> getDescriptionElementsForTaxon(Taxon taxon, Set<Feature> features, Class<? extends DescriptionElementBase> type, Integer pageSize, Integer pageNumber, List<String> propertyPaths);
+    public <T extends DescriptionElementBase> List<T>  getDescriptionElementsForTaxon(Taxon taxon, Set<Feature> features, Class<? extends T> type, Integer pageSize, Integer pageNumber, List<String> propertyPaths);
 
 	public DistributionTree getOrderedDistributions(Set<TaxonDescription> taxonDescriptions, Set<NamedAreaLevel> levels, List<String> propertyPaths);
 
@@ -266,10 +266,22 @@ public interface IDescriptionService extends IIdentifiableEntityService<Descript
 
 	/**
 	 * Preliminary method to test whether a description contains structured data. 
-	 * @deprecated The means of determining this fact may change soon, so this method is annotated a beeing deprecated.
+	 * @deprecated The means of determining this fact may change soon, so this method is
+					annotated as being deprecated.
 	 * @param description
 	 * @return
 	 */
 	@Deprecated
 	public boolean hasStructuredData(DescriptionBase<?> description);
+	
+	/**
+	 * Add the collection of {@link DescriptionElementBase description elements} to the <code>targetDescription</code>.
+	 * Remove the description elements from the description they are currently associated with. 
+	 * 
+	 * @param descriptionElements
+	 * @param targetDescription
+	 * @param isPaste if true, the elements are only copied (cloned) and not removed from the
+	 * 	old description
+	 */
+	public void moveDescriptionElementsToDescription(Collection<DescriptionElementBase> descriptionElements, DescriptionBase targetDescription, boolean isPaste);
 }
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