001/**
002 * Copyright 2005-2016 The Kuali Foundation
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007 *
008 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009 *
010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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015 */
016package org.kuali.rice.krad.service;
017
018import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.BusinessObject;
019
020
021/**
022 * Provides access to sequence numbers.
023 * 
024 * 
025 */
026public interface SequenceAccessorService {
027    /**
028     * This method retrieves the next available sequence number using the
029     * dataSource that is associated with the specified BusinessObject class.
030     * 
031     * @return next available sequence number
032     */ 
033        public Long getNextAvailableSequenceNumber(String sequenceName, 
034                        Class<? extends BusinessObject> clazz);
035        
036    /**
037     * This method retrieves the next available sequence number
038     * 
039     * @return next available sequence number
040     */
041    public Long getNextAvailableSequenceNumber(String sequenceName);
042}