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,
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.external;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.GloballyUnique;
19 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.Identifiable;
20 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.Versioned;
21
22 /**
23 * an external identifier for a KIM identity
24 *
25 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
26 *
27 */
28 public interface EntityExternalIdentifierContract extends Versioned, GloballyUnique, Identifiable {
29
30 /**
31 * Gets this id of the parent identity object.
32 * @return the identity id for this {@link EntityEmailContract}
33 */
34 String getEntityId();
35
36 /**
37 * Gets this {@link EntityExternalIdentifierContract}'s type code.
38 * @return the type code for this {@link EntityExternalIdentifierContract}, or null if none has been assigned.
39 */
40 String getExternalIdentifierTypeCode();
41
42 /**
43 * Gets this {@link EntityExternalIdentifierContract}'s type.
44 * @return the type for this {@link EntityExternalIdentifierContract}, or null if none has been assigned.
45 */
46 EntityExternalIdentifierTypeContract getExternalIdentifierType();
47
48 /**
49 * Gets this {@link EntityExternalIdentifierContract}'s external id.
50 * @return the external id for this {@link EntityExternalIdentifierContract}, or null if none has been assigned.
51 */
52 String getExternalId();
53 }