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.datadictionary;
17
18 import java.io.Serializable;
19
20 import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validator.ValidationTrace;
21
22 /**
23 * Defines methods common to all DataDictionaryDefinition types.
24 */
25 public interface DataDictionaryDefinition extends DictionaryBean, Serializable {
26
27 /**
28 * Performs complete intra-definition validation which couldn't be done earlier - for example, verifies that field
29 * references
30 * refer to actual fields of some specific class.
31 *
32 * @param rootBusinessObjectClass Class of the BusinessObjectEntry which ultimately contains this definition
33 * @param otherBusinessObjectClass other stuff required to complete validation
34 * @throws org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.exception.CompletionException if a problem arises during
35 * validation-completion
36 */
37 @Deprecated
38 void completeValidation(Class<?> rootBusinessObjectClass, Class<?> otherBusinessObjectClass);
39
40 /**
41 * Performs complete intra-definition validation which couldn't be done earlier - for example, verifies that field
42 * references
43 * refer to actual fields of some specific class.
44 *
45 * @param rootBusinessObjectClass Class of the BusinessObjectEntry which ultimately contains this definition
46 * @param otherBusinessObjectClass other stuff required to complete validation
47 * @param tracer {@link ValidationTrace} class used to track what was being validated at the time of any problems discovered
48 */
49 void completeValidation(Class<?> rootBusinessObjectClass, Class<?> otherBusinessObjectClass, ValidationTrace tracer);
50
51 String getId();
52 }