/**

  * 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,

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  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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  */

 package org.kuali.rice.kew.validation;

 import org.kuali.rice.kew.rule.RuleValidationAttribute;

 /**

  * Service which mediates RuleValidationAttribute lookup and invocation.

  * Determines appropriate (possibly remote) {@link org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.validation.RuleValidationAttributeExporterService} endpoint and

  * returns a wrapper which delegates to it.

  *

  * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.rule.RuleValidationAttribute

  * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.validation.RuleValidationAttributeExporterService

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

  */

 public interface RuleValidationAttributeResolver {

     /**

          * Resolves the RuleValidationAttribute by name, possibly resulting in delegation over the KSB.

          *

          * @return a RuleValidationAttribute suitable (only) for invocation of #validate

          */

         public RuleValidationAttribute resolveRuleValidationAttribute(String attributeName, String applicationId) throws Exception;

 }