/**
* Copyright (c) 2011, SOCIETIES Consortium (WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (TSSG), HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY (HWU), SOLUTA.NET
* (SN), GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTRE (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.) (DLR), Zavod za varnostne tehnologije
* informacijske družbe in elektronsko poslovanje (SETCCE), INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS (ICCS), LAKE
* COMMUNICATIONS (LAKE), INTEL PERFORMANCE LEARNING SOLUTIONS LTD (INTEL), PORTUGAL TELECOM INOVAÇÃO, SA (PTIN), IBM Corp.,
* INSTITUT TELECOM (ITSUD), AMITEC DIACHYTI EFYIA PLIROFORIKI KAI EPIKINONIES ETERIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHINIS (AMITEC), TELECOM
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package org.societies.context.api.user.location;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Set;
/**
*
* This is the API to interact with the backed location management system.
* More methods to be followed.
*
* @author guyf@il.ibm.com
*
*/
public interface ILocationManagementAdapter {
/**
* Returns all the active zone in the system, those that at least one device was identified in them.
* @return
*/
public Collection<IZone> getActiveZones();
/**
* Returns all the devices' entity ids that were identified in the given zones.
* @return
*/
public Set<String> getActiveEntitiesIdsInZone(IZoneId zoneId);
/**
* Returns the location of the given entity id.
* @param entityId
* @return
*/
public IUserLocation getEntityFullLocation(String entityId);
/**
* Registers the given CSS device in the location management system
* @param entityId
* @param deviceId
* @param macAddress
* @return
*/
public void registerCSSdevice(String entityId,String deviceId,String macAddress);
/**
* Removes the given CSS device from the location management system
* @param entityId
* @param deviceId
* @param macAddress
* @return
*/
public void removeCSSdevice(String entityId,String deviceId,String macAddress);
}