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package com.moveatis.interfaces;

import java.util.List;

import javax.ejb.Local;

import com.moveatis.abstracts.AbstractCategorySetEntity;
import com.moveatis.event.EventGroupEntity;
import com.moveatis.user.AbstractUser;

/**
 * The interface to manage the event group entity. The event group contains
 * different events that can be thought as a group. For example, an event group
 * named "Exploratory teacher" could contain events like "Teaching situation
 * number 1", "Teaching situation number 2", etc.
 * 
 * @author Sami Kallio <phinaliumz at outlook.com>
 */
@Local(EventGroup.class)
public interface EventGroup {

	void create(EventGroupEntity eventGroupEntity);

	void edit(EventGroupEntity eventGroupEntity);

	void remove(EventGroupEntity eventGroupEntity);

	EventGroupEntity find(Object id);

	List<EventGroupEntity> findAll();

	List<EventGroupEntity> findAllForOwner(AbstractUser owner);

	List<EventGroupEntity> findAllForUser(AbstractUser user);

	List<EventGroupEntity> findAllForPublicUser();

	List<EventGroupEntity> findRange(int[] range);

	void removeCategorySetEntityFromEventGroups(AbstractCategorySetEntity categorySetEntity);

	int count();

}