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.uif.component;
17
18 /**
19 * Components that bind to a model (hold model data) should implement this interface.
20 *
21 * <p>Provides access to the {@link org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.component.BindingInfo} object for the component that
22 * contains binding configuration</p>
23 *
24 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
25 */
26 public interface DataBinding extends Component {
27
28 /**
29 * Returns the <code>BindingInfo</code> instance that is configured for the
30 * component
31 *
32 * @return BindingInfo
33 * @see org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.component.BindingInfo
34 */
35 BindingInfo getBindingInfo();
36
37 /**
38 * Setter for the binding info instance
39 *
40 * @param bindingInfo
41 */
42 void setBindingInfo(BindingInfo bindingInfo);
43
44 /**
45 * Name of the property (relative to the parent object) the component binds
46 * to
47 *
48 * @return String property name
49 */
50 String getPropertyName();
51 }