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.uif.component;
17
18
19 /**
20 * Components that bind to a model (hold model data) should implement this
21 * interface
22 *
23 * <p>
24 * Provides access to the <code>BindingInfo</code> object for the component that
25 * contains binding configuration
26 * </p>
27 *
28 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
29 */
30 public interface DataBinding {
31
32 /**
33 * Returns the <code>BindingInfo</code> instance that is configured for the
34 * component
35 *
36 * @return BindingInfo
37 * @see org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.component.BindingInfo
38 */
39 public BindingInfo getBindingInfo();
40
41 /**
42 * Setter for the binding info instance
43 *
44 * @param bindingInfo
45 */
46 public void setBindingInfo(BindingInfo bindingInfo);
47
48 /**
49 * Name of the property (relative to the parent object) the component binds
50 * to
51 *
52 * @return String property name
53 */
54 public String getPropertyName();
55
56 }