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.krad.datadictionary.validation.constraint.resolver;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.capability.Constrainable;
19 import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.constraint.Constraint;
20
21 import java.util.List;
22
23 /**
24 * An interface that provides a lookup of constraints for a specific constrainable attribute definition. Implemented by constraint
25 * providers as a mechanism to store functional lookups in a map, keyed by constraint type, for example.
26 *
27 * {@see AttributeDefinitionConstraintProvider} for a number of examples.
28 *
29 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
30 * @param <T>
31 * @since 1.1
32 */
33 public interface ConstraintResolver<T extends Constrainable> {
34
35 public <C extends Constraint> List<C> resolve(T definition);
36
37 }