/**

  * Copyright 2010 The Kuali Foundation Licensed under the

  * Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may

  * not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may

  * obtain a copy of the License at

  *

  * http://www.osedu.org/licenses/ECL-2.0

  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,

  * software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"

  * BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express

  * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing

  * permissions and limitations under the License.

  */

 /**

  * 

  */

 package org.kuali.student.common.assembly.data;

 import java.io.Serializable;

 import org.kuali.student.common.assembly.data.Data.DataType;

 /**

  * ModelDefinition contains the metadata for a model

  * @author Kuali Student Team

  *

  */

 public interface ModelDefinition extends Serializable{

         public void ensurePath(final Data root, final QueryPath path, boolean includeLeafNode);

         public DataType getType(final QueryPath path);

         public Metadata getMetadata(final QueryPath path);

         Metadata getMetadata(String path);

     Metadata getMetadata();

 }