001    /**
002     * Copyright 2005-2012 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.datadictionary;
017    
018    import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.exception.AttributeValidationException;
019    
020    /**
021     *  A complex attribute definition in the DataDictictionary. This can be be used to define 
022     *  an attribute for a DataObjectEntry's attribute list which is represented by another
023     *  object entry definition. It will 
024     * 
025     * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
026     */
027    public class ComplexAttributeDefinition extends AttributeDefinitionBase{
028            
029            protected DataDictionaryEntry dataObjectEntry;
030            
031    
032            /**
033             * @return the dataObjectEntry
034             */
035            public DataDictionaryEntry getDataObjectEntry() {
036                    return this.dataObjectEntry;
037            }
038    
039            /**
040             * @param dataObjectEntry the dataObjectEntry to set
041             */
042            public void setDataObjectEntry(DataDictionaryEntry dataObjectEntry) {
043                    this.dataObjectEntry = dataObjectEntry;
044            }
045    
046    
047            /**
048             * @see org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.DataDictionaryDefinition#completeValidation(java.lang.Class, java.lang.Class)
049             */
050            @Override
051            public void completeValidation(Class<?> rootObjectClass, Class<?> otherObjectClass) {
052                    if (getDataObjectEntry() == null){
053                            throw new AttributeValidationException("complex property '" + getName() + "' in class '"
054                                            + rootObjectClass.getName() + " does not have a dataObjectClass defined");
055                            
056                    }
057            }
058    
059    }