1 /**
2 * Copyright 2010 The Kuali Foundation Licensed under the
3 * Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
4 * not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
5 * obtain a copy of the License at
6 *
7 * http://www.osedu.org/licenses/ECL-2.0
8 *
9 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
10 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
11 * BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
12 * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing
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14 */
15
16 package org.kuali.student.contract.model.test.source;
17
18 /**
19 * Indicates this object holds metadata.
20 *
21 * @author nwright
22 */
23
24 public interface HasMeta {
25
26 /**
27 * Create and last update info for the structure. This is optional
28 * and treated as read only since the data is set by the internals
29 * of the service during maintenance operations.
30 *
31 * Contains audit trail information about the creation and last
32 * update of this object Also contains the version ind used for
33 * optimistic locking.
34 *
35 * Attempts to set or update should result in a ReadOnlyException
36 * being thrown.
37 *
38 * @name Create/Update meta info
39 * @readOnly
40 */
41
42 public Meta getMeta();
43 }