1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2016 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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13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.data.metadata;
17
18 import java.io.Serializable;
19
20 /**
21 * Parent and child attribute relationship.
22 *
23 * <p>
24 * Represents a relationship between a parent and child attribute. Used in the context of a {@link MetadataChild}
25 * object.
26 * </p>
27 *
28 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
29 */
30 public interface DataObjectAttributeRelationship extends Serializable {
31
32 /**
33 * Gets attribute name of parent.
34 *
35 * <p>
36 * The property on the "parent" data object.
37 * </p>
38 *
39 * @return attribute name of parent
40 */
41 String getParentAttributeName();
42
43 /**
44 * Gets matching child property.
45 *
46 * <p>
47 * The matching property on the "child", usually part of the child data object's primary key.
48 * </p>
49 *
50 * @return matching child property
51 */
52 String getChildAttributeName();
53 }