org.kuali.rice.core.api.style
Interface StyleContract

All Superinterfaces:

GloballyUnique, Inactivatable, Versioned

All Known Implementing Classes:

Style, Style.Builder

public interface StyleContract
extends Versioned, GloballyUnique, Inactivatable

This is the contract for a Style. A style represents a stylesheet that is used for transforming data from one format to another (currently only XSL is supported).

Author:

Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

Method Summary

String	getName() Returns the name of this style.
Long	getStyleId() Returns the identifier of this style.
String	getXmlContent() Returns the XML definition of this style as a String.

Methods inherited from interface org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.Versioned

getVersionNumber

Methods inherited from interface org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.GloballyUnique

getObjectId

Methods inherited from interface org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.active.Inactivatable

isActive

Method Detail

getStyleId

Long getStyleId()

Returns the identifier of this style. Should only return null if this style has not been persisted to a data repository yet. Each individual style should have a unique identifier.

Returns:

the id of this style, or null if it has not yet been set

getName

String getName()

Returns the name of this style. All styles have a name and this value can never be null or blank. The name must be unique within the entire repository of existing styles.

Returns:

the name of this style

getXmlContent

String getXmlContent()

Returns the XML definition of this style as a String.

Returns:

the xml definition of this style