001    /**
002     * Copyright 2005-2014 The Kuali Foundation
003     *
004     * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     *
008     * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009     *
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    package org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.component;
017    
018    
019    /**
020     * Components that bind to a model (hold model data) should implement this
021     * interface
022     * 
023     * <p>
024     * Provides access to the <code>BindingInfo</code> object for the component that
025     * contains binding configuration
026     * </p>
027     * 
028     * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
029     */
030    public interface DataBinding {
031    
032            /**
033             * Returns the <code>BindingInfo</code> instance that is configured for the
034             * component
035             * 
036             * @return BindingInfo
037             * @see org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.component.BindingInfo
038             */
039            public BindingInfo getBindingInfo();
040    
041        /**
042         * Setter for the binding info instance
043         *
044         * @param bindingInfo
045         */
046        public void setBindingInfo(BindingInfo bindingInfo);
047    
048            /**
049             * Name of the property (relative to the parent object) the component binds
050             * to
051             * 
052             * @return String property name
053             */
054            public String getPropertyName();
055    
056    }