org.domain.rhims.manager
Interface CaseManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

CaseManagerAction

public interface CaseManager

The CaseManager is the business/application logic that handles the CaseFiles between patients and clinicians in the system. It is responsible for registering creating new cases, retrieving a specific case given a patient and a clinician, and retrieving all the cases for a given patient. It is a component of the Application layer.

Author:

Mitch Williams

Method Summary

java.lang.String	createCase(long patientID, long clinicianID) This method creates a new CaseFile between the Patient and Clinician that have the respective supplied ID numbers.
java.lang.String	createCase(Patient patient, Clinician clinician) This method creates a new CaseFile between the supplied Patient and Clinician.
CaseFile	getCase(Patient patient, Clinician clinician) This method retrieves the CaseFile for the supplied Patient, Clinician combo.
java.util.List<CaseFile>	getCases(Patient patient) Retrieves all of the cases associated with Patient patient

Method Detail

createCase

java.lang.String createCase(Patient patient,
                            Clinician clinician)

This method creates a new CaseFile between the supplied Patient and Clinician.

Parameters:

patient - the Patient to use

clinician - the Clinician to use

Returns:

"success" if the case is created, "failure" if not.

createCase

java.lang.String createCase(long patientID,
                            long clinicianID)

This method creates a new CaseFile between the Patient and Clinician that have the respective supplied ID numbers.

Parameters:

patientID - the ID of the patient to use

clinicianID - the ID of the clinician to use

Returns:

"success" if the case is created, "failure" if not.

getCase

CaseFile getCase(Patient patient,
                 Clinician clinician)

This method retrieves the CaseFile for the supplied Patient, Clinician combo.

Parameters:

patient - the Patient to get the CaseFile for

clinician - the Clinician to get the CaseFile for

Returns:

the CaseFile if it is found, null otherwise

getCases

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

Retrieves all of the cases associated with Patient patient

Parameters:

patient - Patient to get the cases for

Returns:

returns a list of CaseFiles as List