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.krad.datadictionary.mask;
17
18 import java.io.Serializable;
19
20 /**
21 * Defines interface for a class that mask data values
22 *
23 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
24 */
25 public interface MaskFormatter extends Serializable {
26
27 /**
28 * Takes in the real data value and returns a masked string.
29 *
30 * @param value - data value
31 * @return String - masked value
32 */
33 public String maskValue(Object value);
34
35 }