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.
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009     * 
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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016    package org.kuali.kfs.vnd.dataaccess;
017    
018    /**
019     * Commodity Code DAO Interface.
020     */
021    public interface CommodityCodeDao {
022        
023        /**
024         * Checks whether the commodity code in wildcard form exists.
025         * For example, if the wildCardCommodityCode in the input parameter is
026         * 100* and the database has commodity code 10023, then this method 
027         * will return true. If no matching found then this method returns false.
028         * 
029         * @param wildCardCommodityCode The string containing wild card character to be queried to the database.
030         * 
031         * @return boolean true if the wildcardCommodityCode exists in the database.
032         */
033        public boolean wildCardCommodityCodeExists(String wildCardCommodityCode);
034    }