From f41186e931d5064acf056bdc9459f414d6f64d22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Bluhm <bluhmdj@ornl.gov>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 15:59:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Initial Persistence interface and annotation

Signed-off-by: Daniel Bluhm <bluhmdj@ornl.gov>
---
 .../ice/dev/annotations/IPersistenceHandler.java    |  6 ++++++
 .../org/eclipse/ice/dev/annotations/Persisted.java  | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 org.eclipse.ice.dev.annotations/src/main/java/org/eclipse/ice/dev/annotations/IPersistenceHandler.java
 create mode 100644 org.eclipse.ice.dev.annotations/src/main/java/org/eclipse/ice/dev/annotations/Persisted.java

diff --git a/org.eclipse.ice.dev.annotations/src/main/java/org/eclipse/ice/dev/annotations/IPersistenceHandler.java b/org.eclipse.ice.dev.annotations/src/main/java/org/eclipse/ice/dev/annotations/IPersistenceHandler.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fddbb51cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.eclipse.ice.dev.annotations/src/main/java/org/eclipse/ice/dev/annotations/IPersistenceHandler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+package org.eclipse.ice.dev.annotations;
+
+public interface IPersistenceHandler {
+	public <T extends IDataElement> void save(T element) throws Exception;
+	public <T extends IDataElement> T findByID(String id) throws Exception;
+}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.ice.dev.annotations/src/main/java/org/eclipse/ice/dev/annotations/Persisted.java b/org.eclipse.ice.dev.annotations/src/main/java/org/eclipse/ice/dev/annotations/Persisted.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..920d39742
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.eclipse.ice.dev.annotations/src/main/java/org/eclipse/ice/dev/annotations/Persisted.java
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package org.eclipse.ice.dev.annotations;
+
+import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
+import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.SOURCE;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+@Retention(SOURCE)
+@Target(TYPE)
+public @interface Persisted {
+	String collection();
+}