Paul Holmes-Higgin cefda8c965 Updated header to LGPL
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/*
* Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Alfresco Software Limited.
*
* This file is part of Alfresco
*
* Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with Alfresco. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.alfresco.service.cmr.search;
/**
* Meta Data associated with a result set.
*
* @author Andy Hind
*/
public interface ResultSetMetaData
{
/**
* Return how, <b>in fact</b>, the result set was limited.
* This may not be how it was requested.
*
* If a limit of 100 were requested and there were 100 or less actual results
* this will report LimitBy.UNLIMITED.
*
* @return
*/
public LimitBy getLimitedBy();
/**
* Return how permission evaluations are being made.
*
* @return
*/
public PermissionEvaluationMode getPermissionEvaluationMode();
/**
* Get the parameters that were specified to define this search.
*
* @return
*/
public SearchParameters getSearchParameters();
/**
* Get the result set type
* @return
*/
public ResultSetType getResultSetType();
/**
* The selector meta-data.
* @return - the selector meta-data.
*/
public ResultSetSelector[] getSelectors();
/**
* The column meta-data.
* @return - the column meta-data.
*/
public ResultSetColumn[] getColumns();
/**
* Get the names of the selectors.
* @return - the selector names.
*/
public String[] getSelectorNames();
/**
* Get the column names.
* @return - the names of the columns.
*/
public String[] getColumnNames();
/**
* Get the selector meta-data by name.
* @param name
* @return - the selector meta-data.
*/
public ResultSetSelector getSelector(String name);
/**
* Get the column meta-data by column name.
* @param name
* @return - the column meta-data.
*/
public ResultSetColumn getColumn(String name);
}