1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2014 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.
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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 * ConstraintResolver provides a lookup of constraints for a specific constrainable attribute definition
25 *
26 * <p>Implemented by constraint
27 * providers as a mechanism to store functional lookups in a map, keyed by constraint type, for example.</p>
28 *
29 * {@see AttributeDefinitionConstraintProvider} for a number of examples.
30 *
31 * @param <T>
32 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
33 * @since 1.1
34 */
35 public interface ConstraintResolver<T extends Constrainable> {
36
37 /**
38 * gets the list of constraints from the provided definition
39 *
40 * @param definition - a data dictionary definition
41 * @param <C> - the java type of the constraint
42 * @return - a list of constraints
43 */
44 public <C extends Constraint> List<C> resolve(T definition);
45
46 }