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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

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 package org.kuali.rice.kew.api.peopleflow;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.delegation.DelegationType;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.membership.MemberType;

 import org.kuali.rice.kew.api.action.ActionRequestPolicy;

 public interface PeopleFlowDelegateContract {

     String getMemberId();

     MemberType getMemberType();

     /**

      * Returns the action request policy to use for this people flow member.  This value is only applicable in the

      * case where the {@code MemberType} is {@code ROLE}.  If the member type is anything else, this value will not

      * be considered and should ideally be set to null

      *

      * @return the action request policy to use for this people flow member if it is a role member, null if this

      * member has no request policy

      */

     ActionRequestPolicy getActionRequestPolicy();

     DelegationType getDelegationType();

     /**

      * Returns the responsibility id of this people flow delegate member.  This is a unique id which KEW can use to help

      * identify and track the responsibility represented by this delegation.  It will be associated with any action

      * requests that are generated from this people flow delegation.

      *

      * @return the responsibility id for this people flow membership delegate

      */

     String getResponsibilityId();

 }