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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
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15   */
16  package org.kuali.rice.kew.api.peopleflow;
17  
18  import org.kuali.rice.core.api.membership.MemberType;
19  import org.kuali.rice.kew.api.action.ActionRequestPolicy;
20  
21  import java.util.List;
22  
23  /**
24   * Interface contract for PeopleFlowDefinition members.
25   *
26   * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
27   */
28  public interface PeopleFlowMemberContract {
29  
30      /**
31       * @return the id of the member.  This will key in to different types depending on the {@link MemberType} of the
32       * instance.
33       */
34      String getMemberId();
35  
36      /**
37       * @return the {@link MemberType} of this member.  Never null.
38       */
39      MemberType getMemberType();
40  
41      /**
42       * Returns the action request policy to use for this people flow member.  This value is only applicable in the
43       * case where the {@code MemberType} is {@code ROLE}.  If the member type is anything else, this value will not
44       * be considered and should ideally be set to null
45       *
46       * @return the action request policy to use for this people flow member if it is a role member, null if this
47       * member has no request policy
48       */
49      ActionRequestPolicy getActionRequestPolicy();
50  
51      /**
52       * @return the priority of the member.  This is equivalent to the sequential stop in the PeopleFlowDefinition, which means
53       * lower integer value equates to higher priority.  The minimum priority is 1.
54       */
55      int getPriority();
56  
57      /**
58       * Returns the responsibility id of this member.  This is a unique id which KEW can use to help identify and track
59       * the responsibility represented by this people flow member.  It will be associated with any action requests that
60       * are generated from this people flow membership.
61       *
62       * @return the responsibility id for this people flow membership
63       */
64      String getResponsibilityId();
65  
66      /**
67       * @return the list of delegates for this member.  Should never be null but may be an empty list in the case where
68       * this member has no delegates
69       */
70      List<? extends PeopleFlowDelegateContract> getDelegates();
71  
72  }