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, 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.service; 17 18 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.uif.RemotableAttributeField; 19 20 /** 21 * Provides service methods for building and validate {@link RemotableAttributeField} definitions from data 22 * dictionary {@link org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.AttributeDefinition} configurations 23 * 24 * <p> 25 * Used by the default type services {@link org.kuali.rice.krad.workflow.DataDictionaryPeopleFlowTypeServiceImpl} to 26 * build the remotable fields for the type attributes 27 * </p> 28 * 29 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org) 30 */ 31 public interface DataDictionaryRemoteFieldService { 32 33 /** 34 * Builds and returns an {@link RemotableAttributeField} instance based on the data dictionary attribute definition 35 * that is associated with the given component class name (business object or data object entry) and the given 36 * attribute name 37 * 38 * <p> 39 * If an attribute definition is not found a runtime exception should be thrown 40 * </p> 41 * 42 * @param componentClassName - class name for the attribute, used to find the data dictionary entry 43 * @param attributeName - name of the attribute whose definition should be used 44 * @return RemotableAttributeField instance built 45 */ 46 public RemotableAttributeField buildRemotableFieldFromAttributeDefinition(String componentClassName, 47 String attributeName); 48 49 }