1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2015 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
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5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.constraint.resolver;
17
18 import java.util.List;
19
20 import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.capability.Constrainable;
21 import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.constraint.Constraint;
22 import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.constraint.provider.AttributeDefinitionConstraintProvider;
23
24 /**
25 * ConstraintResolver provides a lookup of constraints for a specific constrainable attribute definition
26 *
27 * <p>Implemented by constraint
28 * providers as a mechanism to store functional lookups in a map, keyed by constraint type, for example.</p>
29 *
30 * {@link AttributeDefinitionConstraintProvider} for a number of examples.
31 *
32 * @param <T> constrainable type
33 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
34 * @since 1.1
35 */
36 public interface ConstraintResolver<T extends Constrainable> {
37
38 /**
39 * gets the list of constraints from the provided definition
40 *
41 * @param definition - a data dictionary definition
42 * @param <C> - the java type of the constraint
43 * @return - a list of constraints
44 */
45 public <C extends Constraint> List<C> resolve(T definition);
46
47 }