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  * Copyright 2005-2007 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  *

  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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  */

 package org.kuali.rice.kns.lookup.keyvalues;

 import java.util.List;

 import java.util.Map;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.util.KeyValue;

 /**

  * This interface defines basic methods value finders.

  *

  *

  */

 public interface KeyValuesFinder {

     /**

      * Builds a list of key values representations for valid value selections.

      *

      * @return List of KeyValue objects.

      */

     public List<KeyValue> getKeyValues();

     /**

      * Builds a list of key values representations for valid value selections.

      *

      * @param includeActiveOnly whether to only include active values in the list

      *  

      * @return List of KeyValue objects.

      */

     public List<KeyValue> getKeyValues(boolean includeActiveOnly);

     /**

      * Returns a map with the key as the key of the map and the label as the value. Used to render the label instead of the code in

      * the jsp when the field is readonly.

      *

      * @return

      */

     public Map<String, String> getKeyLabelMap();

     /**

      * Returns the label for the associated key.

      *

      * @param key

      * @return

      */

     public String getKeyLabel(String key);

     /**

      * Clears any internal cache that is being maintained by the value finder

      */

     public void clearInternalCache();

 }