org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary
Class ComplexAttributeDefinition

java.lang.Object
  org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.DictionaryBeanBase
      org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.DataDictionaryDefinitionBase
          org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.AttributeDefinitionBase
              org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.ComplexAttributeDefinition

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable, Copyable, DataDictionaryDefinition, DictionaryBean, Constrainable, ExistenceConstrainable, SimpleConstrainable, Constraint, ExistenceConstraint

public class ComplexAttributeDefinition
extends AttributeDefinitionBase

A complex attribute definition in the DataDictictionary. This can be be used to define an attribute for a DataObjectEntry's attribute list which is represented by another object entry definition. It will

Author:

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

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

protected DataDictionaryEntry

dataObjectEntry

Fields inherited from class org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.AttributeDefinitionBase

constraintText, dataObjectAttribute, description, displayLabelAttribute, label, name, shortLabel, simpleConstraint, summary

Fields inherited from class org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.DataDictionaryDefinitionBase

embeddedDataObjectMetadata, generatedFromMetadata, id

Fields inherited from class org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.DictionaryBeanBase

componentCode, namespaceCode

Constructor Summary

ComplexAttributeDefinition()

Method Summary

void	completeValidation(Class<?> rootObjectClass, Class<?> otherObjectClass, ValidationTrace tracer) Empty implementation so that all subclasses do not need to implement this method if they have no local validation to perform.
DataDictionaryEntry	getDataObjectEntry()
void	setDataObjectEntry(DataDictionaryEntry dataObjectEntry)

Methods inherited from class org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.AttributeDefinitionBase

deriveConstraintText, getConstraintText, getDataObjectAttribute, getDescription, getDirectShortLabel, getDisplayLabelAttribute, getLabel, getName, getShortLabel, getSimpleConstraint, getSummary, isRequired, setConstraintText, setDataObjectAttribute, setDescription, setDisplayLabelAttribute, setLabel, setName, setRequired, setShortLabel, setSimpleConstraint, setSummary

Methods inherited from class org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.DataDictionaryDefinitionBase

completeValidation, getId, hasEmbeddedDataObjectMetadata, setEmbeddedDataObjectMetadata, setGeneratedFromMetadata, setId, wasGeneratedFromMetadata

Methods inherited from class org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.DictionaryBeanBase

clone, copy, dataDictionaryPostProcessing, getComponentCode, getNamespaceCode, preventModification, setComponentCode, setNamespaceCode, unwrap

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.DictionaryBean

dataDictionaryPostProcessing, getComponentCode, getNamespaceCode

Field Detail

dataObjectEntry

protected DataDictionaryEntry dataObjectEntry

Constructor Detail

ComplexAttributeDefinition

public ComplexAttributeDefinition()

Method Detail

getDataObjectEntry

public DataDictionaryEntry getDataObjectEntry()

Returns:

the dataObjectEntry

setDataObjectEntry

public void setDataObjectEntry(DataDictionaryEntry dataObjectEntry)

Parameters:

dataObjectEntry - the dataObjectEntry to set

completeValidation

public void completeValidation(Class<?> rootObjectClass,
                               Class<?> otherObjectClass,
                               ValidationTrace tracer)

Description copied from class: DataDictionaryDefinitionBase

Empty implementation so that all subclasses do not need to implement this method if they have no local validation to perform.

Specified by:

completeValidation in interface DataDictionaryDefinition

Overrides:

completeValidation in class DataDictionaryDefinitionBase

Parameters:

rootObjectClass - Class of the BusinessObjectEntry which ultimately contains this definition

otherObjectClass - other stuff required to complete validation

tracer - ValidationTrace class used to track what was being validated at the time of any problems discovered