1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary;
17
18 import java.io.Serializable;
19
20 /**
21 * Defines methods common to all DataDictionaryDefinition types.
22 */
23 public interface DataDictionaryDefinition extends Serializable {
24
25 /**
26 * Performs complete intra-definition validation which couldn't be done earlier - for example, verifies that field references
27 * refer to actual fields of some specific class.
28 *
29 * @param rootBusinessObjectClass Class of the BusinessObjectEntry which ultimately contains this definition
30 * @param otherBusinessObjectClass other stuff required to complete validation
31 * @throws org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.exception.CompletionException if a problem arises during validation-completion
32 */
33 public void completeValidation(Class<?> rootBusinessObjectClass, Class<?> otherBusinessObjectClass);
34
35 public String getId();
36 }