org.domain.rhims.dao
Interface MedicalDataDAO

All Known Implementing Classes:

MedicalDataDAOMySQL

public interface MedicalDataDAO

The MedicalDataDAO is responsible for interacting with the persistence of the medical data that is received from other parts of the application. It is a component of the Persistance layer of the application. It contains a method to save new medical data, along with a method to retrieve data for a particular patientID.

Author:

Mitch Williams

Method Summary

java.util.List<MedicalDataValue>	getMedicalData(long patientID) This method returns a list containing all Medical Data Values for a particular patientID.
void	saveMedicalData(MedicalDataValue medicalDataValue) This method persists a MedicalDataValue entity object.

Method Detail

saveMedicalData

void saveMedicalData(MedicalDataValue medicalDataValue)

This method persists a MedicalDataValue entity object. An improvement would be to acknowledge if the data was saved successfully or not.

Parameters:

medicalDataValue - the data object to persist

getMedicalData

java.util.List<MedicalDataValue> getMedicalData(long patientID)

This method returns a list containing all Medical Data Values for a particular patientID.

Parameters:

patientID - the patientID of the patient's data to retrieve

Returns:

the list of medical data