/*

  * Copyright 2007-2008 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.kim.bo.types;

 /**

  * This is the generic template for a holder for the

  * actual value of a property attached to a KIM object.

  *

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

  *

  */

 public interface KimAttributeData {

         /*

          * Generic getter for the data ID - this method could be implemented differently in

          * subclasses specific to their types.

          */

         String getAttributeDataId();

         /** The PK of the object that this data belongs to.  If this is a attached to a group

          * then this value is the group ID.

          */

         //String getTargetPrimaryKey();

         String getKimTypeId();

         String getKimAttributeId();

 //        KimAttribute getKimAttribute();

 //        KimType getKimType();

         String getAttributeValue();

 }