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,
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.data.provider;
17
18 import java.util.List;
19
20 /**
21 * This metadata provider forms the main provider for the krad-data module.
22 *
23 * <p>It's responsible for merging the provided list of metadata providers.</p>
24 *
25 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
26 *
27 */
28 public interface CompositeMetadataProvider extends MetadataProvider {
29
30 /**
31 * The list of providers this provider will use.
32 *
33 * <p>They must be in the necessary order for processing. Later providers in the list.</p>
34 *
35 * @return a list of all metadata providers contained within this composite provider
36 */
37 List<MetadataProvider> getProviders();
38
39 }