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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
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9    *
10   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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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.impl;
17  
18  import org.kuali.rice.krad.data.metadata.DataObjectAttribute;
19  
20  /**
21   * Interface implemented by the classes within the provider, but that we don't want to expose to use outside of the
22   * krad-data module.
23   * 
24   * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
25   */
26  public interface DataObjectAttributeInternal extends DataObjectAttribute, MetadataCommonInternal {
27  	/**
28      * If this data object attribute is wrapping another (generated by a lower metadata provider), return that.
29      *
30      * @return <b>null</b> if this attribute is not wrapping another.
31      */
32  	DataObjectAttribute getEmbeddedAttribute();
33  
34      /**
35      * Sets embedded attribute.
36      *
37      * @param embeddedAttribute embedded attribute.
38      */
39  	void setEmbeddedAttribute(DataObjectAttribute embeddedAttribute);
40  }