1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2011 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.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.core.api.criteria;
17
18 import java.util.Set;
19
20 /**
21 * An predicate that contains other predicates.
22 *
23 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
24 */
25 public interface CompositePredicate extends Predicate {
26
27 /**
28 * Returns an unmodifiable set of predicates contained within
29 * this composite predicate. This set could be empty but should
30 * never be null.
31 *
32 * @return the set of predicates contained within this composite
33 */
34 Set<Predicate> getPredicates();
35
36 }