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  * 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.kim.api.identity.personal;

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

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

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

 /**

  * ethnicity information for a KIM identity

  * 

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (kuali-rice@googlegroups.com)

  *

  */

 public interface EntityEthnicityContract extends Versioned, GloballyUnique, Identifiable {

         /**

      * Gets this {@link EntityEthnicityContract}'s identity id.

      * @return the identity id for this {@link EntityEthnicityContract}, or null if none has been assigned.

      */

         String getEntityId();

         /**

      * Gets this {@link EntityEthnicityContract}'s ethnicity code.

      * @return the ethnicity code for this {@link EntityEthnicityContract}, or null if none has been assigned.

      */

         String getEthnicityCode();

         /**

      * Gets this {@link EntityEthnicityContract}'s unmasked ethnicity code.

      * @return the unmasked ethnicity code for this {@link EntityEthnicityContract}, or null if none has been assigned.

      */

         String getEthnicityCodeUnmasked();

         /**

      * Gets this {@link EntityEthnicityContract}'s sub-ethnicity code.

      * @return the sub-ethnicity code for this {@link EntityEthnicityContract}, or null if none has been assigned.

      */

         String getSubEthnicityCode();

         /**

      * Gets this {@link EntityEthnicityContract}'s unmasked sub-ethnicity code.

      * @return the unmasked sub-ethnicity code for this {@link EntityEthnicityContract}, or null if none has been assigned.

      */

     String getSubEthnicityCodeUnmasked();

     /**

      * Returns a boolean value that determines if personal fields should be suppressed.

      * @return boolean value that determines if personal fields should be suppressed.

      */

         boolean isSuppressPersonal();

 }