org.domain.rhims.dao
Interface CaseDAO

All Known Implementing Classes:

CaseDAOMySQL

public interface CaseDAO

The CaseDAO is responsible for interacting with the persistence of the case files that hold the relationship between Patients and Clinicians. It is a component of the Persistance layer of the application. It contains a method to save a new CaseFile, along with a method to retrieve a CaseFile between a given Patient and Clinician, and a method to retrieve a List of all the CaseFiles for a given Patient.

Author:

Mitch Williams

Method Summary

java.lang.String	createCase(CaseFile newCase) Save a new CaseFile.
CaseFile	getCase(Patient patient, Clinician clinician) Retrieve the CaseFile between the supplied patient and clinician.
java.util.List<CaseFile>	getCases(Patient patient) Retrieve all the CaseFiles that contain the supplied Patient

Method Detail

createCase

java.lang.String createCase(CaseFile newCase)

Save a new CaseFile.

Parameters:

newCase - the CaseFile to persist

Returns:

"success" if persists succeeds

getCase

CaseFile getCase(Patient patient,
                 Clinician clinician)

Retrieve the CaseFile between the supplied patient and clinician.

Parameters:

patient - the Patient in the requested case

clinician - the Clinician in the requested case

Returns:

The CaseFile if it is found, null otherwise

getCases

java.util.List<CaseFile> getCases(Patient patient)

Retrieve all the CaseFiles that contain the supplied Patient

Parameters:

patient - the Patient to get the CaseFiles for

Returns:

a List of CaseFiles if any are found