/**

  * 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.krad.datadictionary.mask;

 /**

  * The maskLiteral element is used to completely hide the field value for

  * unauthorized users. The specified literal will be shown instead of the field

  * value.

  * 

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

  */

 public class MaskFormatterLiteral implements MaskFormatter {

     private static final long serialVersionUID = 3368293409242411693L;

     protected String literal;

     public String maskValue(Object value) {

         return literal;

     }

     /**

      * Gets the literalString attribute.

      * 

      * @return Returns the literal String.

      */

     public String getLiteral() {

         return literal;

     }

     /**

      * Specify the string that will be shown instead of the actual value when masked.

      */

     public void setLiteral(String literal) {

         this.literal = literal;

     }

 }