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.
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.BusinessObject;
19
20 /**
21 * This interface provides read-only metadata about inactivation blocking. This metadata object is associated with a
22 * data object. The source of this information often comes from the data dictionary file.
23 *
24 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
25 */
26 public interface InactivationBlockingMetadata {
27
28 /**
29 * The property name of the reference on the blocked object which points to the blocking object.
30 *
31 * @return the name of the blocking reference
32 * @deprecated use {@link #getBlockedAttributeName()} instead
33 */
34 @Deprecated
35 String getBlockedReferencePropertyName();
36
37 /**
38 * The name of the attribute which is blocked by the blocking object.
39 *
40 * @return the name of the blocked attribute
41 */
42 String getBlockedAttributeName();
43
44 /**
45 * The type of the object that is blocked.
46 *
47 * @return the type of the business object that is blocked
48 *
49 * @deprecated use {@link #getBlockedDataObjectClass()} instead, there is no requirement that the blocked class
50 * must implement the deprecated {@link BusinessObject} interface.
51 */
52 @Deprecated
53 Class<? extends BusinessObject> getBlockedBusinessObjectClass();
54
55 /**
56 * Returns the type of the data object that is blocked.
57 *
58 * @return the type of the data object that is blocked, should never be null
59 */
60 Class<?> getBlockedDataObjectClass();
61
62 /**
63 * The bean name of the service that is responsible for determining whether there are any records that block
64 * inactivation
65 */
66 String getInactivationBlockingDetectionServiceBeanName();
67
68 /**
69 * The type of the object that is blocking another record.
70 *
71 * @return the type of the object that is blocking
72 *
73 * @deprecated use {@link #getBlockingDataObjectClass()} instead, there is no requirement that the blocking class
74 * must implement the deprecated {@link BusinessObject} interface.
75 */
76 @Deprecated
77 Class<? extends BusinessObject> getBlockingReferenceBusinessObjectClass();
78
79 /**
80 * The type of the object that is blocking another record.
81 *
82 * @return the type of the object that is blocking, should never be null
83 */
84 Class<?> getBlockingDataObjectClass();
85
86
87 /**
88 * Returns the human-meaningful name of the relationship
89 *
90 * @return relationship label
91 */
92 String getRelationshipLabel();
93 }