1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2015 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
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.component;
17
18 /**
19 * Components that bind to a model (hold model data) should implement this
20 * interface
21 *
22 * <p>
23 * Provides access to the <code>BindingInfo</code> object for the component that
24 * contains binding configuration
25 * </p>
26 *
27 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
28 */
29 public interface DataBinding {
30
31 /**
32 * Returns the <code>BindingInfo</code> instance that is configured for the
33 * component
34 *
35 * @return BindingInfo
36 * @see org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.component.BindingInfo
37 */
38 public BindingInfo getBindingInfo();
39
40 /**
41 * Setter for the binding info instance
42 *
43 * @param bindingInfo
44 */
45 public void setBindingInfo(BindingInfo bindingInfo);
46
47 /**
48 * Name of the property (relative to the parent object) the component binds
49 * to
50 *
51 * @return String property name
52 */
53 public String getPropertyName();
54 }