1 /**
2 * Copyright 2010 The Kuali Foundation Licensed under the
3 * Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
4 * not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
5 * obtain a copy of the License at
6 *
7 * http://www.osedu.org/licenses/ECL-2.0
8 *
9 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
10 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
11 * BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
12 * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing
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14 */
15
16 /**
17 *
18 */
19 package org.kuali.student.common.assembly.data;
20
21 import java.io.Serializable;
22
23 import org.kuali.student.common.assembly.data.Data.DataType;
24
25
26 /**
27 * ModelDefinition contains the metadata for a model
28 * @author Kuali Student Team
29 *
30 */
31 public interface ModelDefinition extends Serializable{
32 public void ensurePath(final Data root, final QueryPath path, boolean includeLeafNode);
33 public DataType getType(final QueryPath path);
34 public Metadata getMetadata(final QueryPath path);
35 Metadata getMetadata(String path);
36 Metadata getMetadata();
37 }