1 /*
2 * Copyright 2007 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.ole.vnd.businessobject;
17
18 /**
19 * Defines methods that must be implemented by classes providing a VendorRoutingComparable.
20 */
21 public interface VendorRoutingComparable {
22
23 /**
24 * A predicate to test equality of all the persisted attributes of an instance of this class, not including
25 * member collections. This is used to help determine whether to route.
26 *
27 * @param toCompare An Object, which should be of this class if the comparison is to be meaningful.
28 * @return True if all non-derived attributes of the given object other than collections are equal to this one's. False if the
29 * given object is null or of a different class.
30 */
31 public boolean isEqualForRouting(Object toCompare);
32
33 }