/**

  * 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.kew.api.repository.type;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.Identifiable;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.Versioned;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.active.Inactivatable;

 import java.util.List;

 public interface KewTypeDefinitionContract extends Identifiable, Inactivatable,

                 Versioned {

         /**

          * This is the name for the KEWType

          * 

          * <p>

          * It is a name of a KEW type.

          * </p>

          * 

          * @return name for KEW type.

          */

         public String getName();

         /**

          * This is the namespace code.

          * 

          * <p>

          * It provides scope of the KEW type.

          * </p>

          * 

          * @return the namespace code of the KEW type.

          */

         public String getNamespace();

         /**

          * This is the name of the KEW KewType service

          * 

          * @return the service name of the KEW type

          */

         public String getServiceName();

         /**

          * This method returns a list of attributes associated with the KewType

          * 

          * @return a list of KewTypeAttribute objects.

          */

         public List<? extends KewTypeAttributeContract> getAttributes();

 }