org.kuali.rice.krad.data.provider
Interface CompositeMetadataProvider

All Superinterfaces:

MetadataProvider, Provider

All Known Implementing Classes:

CompositeMetadataProviderImpl

public interface CompositeMetadataProvider
extends MetadataProvider

This metadata provider forms the main provider for the krad-data module. It's responsible for merging the provided list of metadata providers.

Author:

Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

Method Summary

List<MetadataProvider>

getProviders() The list of providers this provider will use.

Methods inherited from interface org.kuali.rice.krad.data.provider.MetadataProvider

getMetadataForType, getSupportedTypes, handles, provideMetadata, provideMetadataForTypes, requiresListOfExistingTypes

Method Detail

getProviders

List<MetadataProvider> getProviders()

The list of providers this provider will use. They must be in the necessary order for processing. Later providers in the list

Returns:

a list of all metadata providers contained within this composite provider