001    /**
002     * Copyright 2005-2013 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    /**
019     * Performs overrides on properties of fields in a Data Dictionary bean.
020     *
021     * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
022     */
023    public interface FieldOverride {
024        /**
025         * Return the property name to perform the override.
026         *
027         * @return
028         */
029        public String getPropertyName();
030    
031        /**
032         * perform the override.
033         *
034         * @param bean
035         * @param property
036         * @return
037         */
038        public Object performFieldOverride(Object bean, Object property);
039    }