/**

  * 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.uif.component;

 /**

  * Components that bind to a model (hold model data) should implement this

  * interface

  * 

  * <p>

  * Provides access to the <code>BindingInfo</code> object for the component that

  * contains binding configuration

  * </p>

  * 

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

  */

 public interface DataBinding {

         /**

          * Returns the <code>BindingInfo</code> instance that is configured for the

          * component

          * 

          * @return BindingInfo

          * @see org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.component.BindingInfo

          */

         public BindingInfo getBindingInfo();

     /**

      * Setter for the binding info instance

      *

      * @param bindingInfo

      */

     public void setBindingInfo(BindingInfo bindingInfo);

         /**

          * Name of the property (relative to the parent object) the component binds

          * to

          * 

          * @return String property name

          */

         public String getPropertyName();

 }