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/**

* Copyright (C) 2007 EDIT

* European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy 

* http://www.e-taxonomy.eu

* 

* The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1

* See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.

*/

package eu.etaxonomy.cdm.api.service;

import java.util.Collection;

import java.util.List;

import java.util.UUID;

import java.util.Map;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.reference.ReferenceBase;

public interface IReferenceService<T extends ReferenceBase> extends IIdentifiableEntityService<T> {

//public interface IReferenceService extends IIdentifiableEntityService<ReferenceBase> {

	/** Finds reference by UUID **/

	public abstract ReferenceBase getReferenceByUuid(UUID uuid);

	/** Finds references by title **/

	public List<T> getReferencesByTitle(String title);

	/** Finds references of a certain kind by title **/

	public List<T> getReferencesByTitle(String title, Class<T> clazz);

	/** Gets all references **/

	public abstract List<ReferenceBase> getAllReferences(int limit, int start);

//	public abstract UUID saveReference(ReferenceBase reference);

	/** Saves a reference and return its UUID **/

	public abstract UUID saveReference(T reference);

//	public abstract Map<UUID, ReferenceBase> saveReferenceAll(Collection<ReferenceBase> referenceCollection);

	/** Saves a collection of references **/

	public abstract Map<UUID, T> saveReferenceAll(Collection<T> referenceCollection);

}