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  * Copyright 2007-2008 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,

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  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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 package org.kuali.rice.kim.bo.entity;

 /**

  * an external identifier for a KIM identity

  * 

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

  *

  */

 public interface KimEntityExternalIdentifier {

     /**

      * Gets this {@link KimEntityExternalIdentifier}'s id.

      * @return the id for this {@link KimEntityExternalIdentifier}, or null if none has been assigned.

      */

         String getEntityExternalIdentifierId();

         /**

      * Gets this {@link KimEntityExternalIdentifier}'s type code.

      * @return the type code for this {@link KimEntityExternalIdentifier}, or null if none has been assigned.

      */

         String getExternalIdentifierTypeCode();

         /**

      * Gets this {@link KimEntityExternalIdentifier}'s external id.

      * @return the external id for this {@link KimEntityExternalIdentifier}, or null if none has been assigned.

      */

         String getExternalId();

 }