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.krad.data.metadata.impl;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.krad.data.metadata.DataObjectMetadata;
19
20
21 /**
22 * Additional methods which are needed to support the linking between embedded metadata objects but that we don't want
23 * to expose on our public interfaces.
24 *
25 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
26 */
27 public interface DataObjectMetadataInternal extends DataObjectMetadata {
28 /**
29 * The embedded DataObjectMetadata which will be used to fill in values not specified by this DataObjectMetadata.
30 *
31 * @return the embedded metadata, or no if no metadata is embedded
32 */
33 DataObjectMetadataInternal getEmbedded();
34
35 /**
36 * Sets the embedded DataObjectMetadata.
37 *
38 * @param embedded or null
39 */
40 void setEmbedded(DataObjectMetadataInternal embedded);
41 }