1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2012 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.core.api.mo;
17
18 import java.io.Serializable;
19
20 /**
21 * All model objects in rice should be {@link Serializable} & override {@link #toString()}.
22 */
23 public interface ModelObjectBasic extends Serializable {
24
25 /**
26 * This will return a proper string representation of the Model Object.
27 * All of the fields comprising the "public" api should be represented in
28 * the return value.
29 *
30 * @return the string representation
31 */
32 @Override
33 String toString();
34 }