001/**
002 * Copyright 2005-2014 The Kuali Foundation
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007 *
008 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009 *
010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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015 */
016package org.kuali.rice.kew.validation;
017
018import org.kuali.rice.kew.rule.RuleValidationAttribute;
019
020/**
021 * Service which mediates RuleValidationAttribute lookup and invocation.
022 * Determines appropriate (possibly remote) {@link org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.validation.RuleValidationAttributeExporterService} endpoint and
023 * returns a wrapper which delegates to it.
024 *
025 * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.rule.RuleValidationAttribute
026 * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.framework.validation.RuleValidationAttributeExporterService
027 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
028 */
029public interface RuleValidationAttributeResolver {
030    /**
031         * Resolves the RuleValidationAttribute by name, possibly resulting in delegation over the KSB.
032         *
033         * @return a RuleValidationAttribute suitable (only) for invocation of #validate
034         */
035        public RuleValidationAttribute resolveRuleValidationAttribute(String attributeName, String applicationId) throws Exception;
036}