com.bea.commerce.ebusiness.discount.mgmt
Interface DiscountMgmt

All Superinterfaces:

EJBObject, Remote

public interface DiscountMgmt

extends EJBObject

This interface defines the public interface of the DiscountMgmt service. This service controls the persistance of discount sets and the creation and access of discounts.

Method Summary

QualificationDiscountDef	getDiscountById(QualificationDiscountId id) Gets a discount (QualificationDiscountDef) by it's id (QualificationDiscountId).
QualificationDiscountDef	getDiscountByName(String discountName) Gets a discount definition (QualificationDiscountDef) by its name.
QualificationDiscountDef	getDiscountByName(String setName, String discountName) Deprecated. use getDiscountByName(String discountName)
Set	getDiscountsById(Set idSet, Set qualDiscountDefSet) Gets a Set of QualificationDiscountDefs whose ids (QualificationDiscountId)s are in the Set argument passed.
Set	getGlobalDiscounts() Gets all the global discounts currently deployed

Methods inherited from interface javax.ejb.EJBObject

getEJBHome, getHandle, getPrimaryKey, isIdentical, remove

Method Detail

getDiscountById

public QualificationDiscountDef getDiscountById(QualificationDiscountId id)
                                         throws RemoteException

Gets a discount (QualificationDiscountDef) by it's id (QualificationDiscountId).

Parameters:

id - the QualificationDiscountId of the discount

Returns:

the QualificationDiscountDef specifed by the id or null if the discount was not found

Throws:

RemoteException - thrown on a communication error

getDiscountByName

public QualificationDiscountDef getDiscountByName(String discountName)
                                           throws RemoteException

Gets a discount definition (QualificationDiscountDef) by its name. Since discount name are only unquie within a discount set the set name is required also.

Parameters:

discountName - the id (QualificationDiscountId) of the discount to retrieve

Returns:

the discount definition (QualificationDiscountDef), or null if the discount was not found

Throws:

RemoteException - thrown on a communication error

getDiscountByName

public QualificationDiscountDef getDiscountByName(String setName,
                                                  String discountName)
                                           throws RemoteException

Deprecated. use getDiscountByName(String discountName)

Throws:

RemoteException

getDiscountsById

public Set getDiscountsById(Set idSet,
                            Set qualDiscountDefSet)
                     throws RemoteException

Gets a Set of QualificationDiscountDefs whose ids (QualificationDiscountId)s are in the Set argument passed.

Parameters:

idSet - a Set of QualificationDiscountId objects. This Set will not be modified by this method.

qualDiscountDefSet - an empty set into which the QualificationDiscountDef objects will be placed. This set must be modifiable. Anything that was already in the set will be removed.

Returns:

a Set, the one specifed by the qualDiscountDefSet parameter, of QualificationDiscountDef objects whose QualificationDiscountIds match those passed in the idSet parameter. If no matching QualificationDiscountDef objects the returned set will be empty.

Throws:

RemoteException - thrown on a communication error

getGlobalDiscounts

public Set getGlobalDiscounts()
                       throws RemoteException

Gets all the global discounts currently deployed

Returns:

a Set containging all of the global QualificationDiscountDef objects currently deployed, if there are no global discounts deployed the Set will be empty.

Throws:

RemoteException - thrown on a communication error