biz.wedoit4u.ejb.entity
Interface Categories

All Superinterfaces:

javax.ejb.EJBLocalHome

public interface Categories
extends javax.ejb.EJBLocalHome

The local home interface to the entity bean that represents a record in the categories table.

Copyright 2003, Rakesh Vidyadharan and wedoit4u.biz

Version:

$Id: Categories.java,v 1.3 2004/05/26 11:42:33 rakesh Exp $

Author:

Rakesh Vidyadharan 9^th September 2003

Method Summary

Category	create(Customer customer, java.lang.String menuName, java.lang.String longName) Create a new category record with just the required values.
Category	create(Customer customer, java.lang.String menuName, java.lang.String longName, java.lang.String brief, java.lang.String picture, java.lang.String description) Create a new category record with all the column values.
java.util.Collection	findAll() Return a Collection of entity bean instances that represent all the records in the categories table.
java.util.Collection	findByCustomer(Customer customer) Return a Collection of entity bean instances that match the customer_id specified.
Category	findByPrimaryKey(int categoryId) Return the entity bean instance that represents the record in the categories table identified by the primary key column (category_id).

Methods inherited from interface javax.ejb.EJBLocalHome

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Method Detail

create

Category create(Customer customer,
                java.lang.String menuName,
                java.lang.String longName)
                throws javax.ejb.CreateException

Create a new category record with just the required values. This method obtains the next sequence value for the category_id value, and sets the category_id value to the sequence value.

Parameters:

customer - - The reference to the entity bean that represents a record in the customer table. This will be used to set the foreign key customer_id column.

menuName - - The value for the menu_name column.

longName - - The value for the long_name column.

Throws:

javax.ejb.CreateException - - If errors are encountered while creating the new record.

See Also:

DatabaseHelper.getNextSequenceValue( String )

create

Category create(Customer customer,
                java.lang.String menuName,
                java.lang.String longName,
                java.lang.String brief,
                java.lang.String picture,
                java.lang.String description)
                throws javax.ejb.CreateException

Create a new category record with all the column values. This method obtains the next sequence value for the category_id value, and sets the category_id value to the sequence value.

Parameters:

customer - - The reference to the entity bean that represents a record in the customer table. This will be used to set the foreign key customer_id column.

menuName - - The value for the menu_name column.

longName - - The value for the long_name column.

brief - - The value for the brief column.

picture - - The value for the picture column.

description - - The value for the description column.

Throws:

javax.ejb.CreateException - - If errors are encountered while creating the new record.

See Also:

DatabaseHelper.getNextSequenceValue( String )

findByPrimaryKey

Category findByPrimaryKey(int categoryId)
                          throws javax.ejb.FinderException

Return the entity bean instance that represents the record in the categories table identified by the primary key column (category_id).

Parameters:

categoryId - - The primary key value based on which to look up the record.

Returns:

Collection - The collection of entity bean instances.

Throws:

javax.ejb.FinderException - - If errors are encountered while finding the appropriate bean instance.

findByCustomer

java.util.Collection findByCustomer(Customer customer)
                                    throws javax.ejb.FinderException

Return a Collection of entity bean instances that match the customer_id specified. This finder returns all the categories belonging to the specified customer.

Parameters:

customer - - The customer_id for which the matching bean instances are to be returned.

Throws:

javax.ejb.FinderException - - If errors are encountered while finding the appropriate bean instance.

findAll

java.util.Collection findAll()
                             throws javax.ejb.FinderException

Return a Collection of entity bean instances that represent all the records in the categories table.

Returns:

Collection - The collection of entity bean instances.

Throws:

javax.ejb.FinderException - - If errors are encountered while finding the appropriate bean instance.