001    /*
002     * Copyright 2011 The Kuali Foundation.
003     * 
004     * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     * 
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009     * 
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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015     */
016    package org.kuali.kfs.coa.service;
017    
018    import org.kuali.kfs.coa.businessobject.PriorYearAccount;
019    
020    /**
021     * 
022     * This service interface defines methods necessary for retrieving fully populated PriorYearAccount business objects from the database
023     * that are necessary for transaction processing in the application. It also defines a method for populating the account db table with prior year values
024     */
025    public interface PriorYearAccountService {
026    
027        /**
028         * @param chartCode
029         * @param accountNumber
030         * @return
031         */
032        public PriorYearAccount getByPrimaryKey(String chartCode, String accountNumber);
033    
034        /**
035         * This method populates the prior year account table in the database with all the values from the current year account table.
036         */
037        public void populatePriorYearAccountsFromCurrent();
038    }