/**

  * Copyright 2005-2011 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

  * limitations under the License.

  */

 package org.kuali.rice.core.api.reflect;

 /**

  * Constructor param on an {@link ObjectDefinition}.  Represents an object and it's type.

  * 

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

  */

 public class DataDefinition implements java.io.Serializable {

         private static final long serialVersionUID = 2171793503482942282L;

         private final Object value;

     private final Class type;

     public DataDefinition(Object value) {

             if (value == null) {

                     throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't determine data type from null value.");

             }

             this.value = value;

             this.type = value.getClass();

     }

     public DataDefinition(Object value, Class type) {

         this.value = value;

         this.type = type;

     }

     public Object getValue() {

         return this.value;

     }

     public Class getType() {

         return this.type;

     }

 }