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.
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.core.api.reflect;
17
18 /**
19 * Constructor param on an {@link ObjectDefinition}. Represents an object and it's type.
20 *
21 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
22 */
23 public class DataDefinition implements java.io.Serializable {
24
25 private static final long serialVersionUID = 2171793503482942282L;
26 private final Object value;
27 private final Class type;
28
29 public DataDefinition(Object value) {
30 if (value == null) {
31 throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't determine data type from null value.");
32 }
33 this.value = value;
34 this.type = value.getClass();
35 }
36
37 public DataDefinition(Object value, Class type) {
38 this.value = value;
39 this.type = type;
40 }
41
42 public Object getValue() {
43 return this.value;
44 }
45
46 public Class getType() {
47 return this.type;
48 }
49
50 }