/**

  * Copyright 2012 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  * Licensed under the the Educational Community License, Version 1.0

  * (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.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php

  *

  * 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

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  */

 package org.kuali.student.r2.common.infc;

 import java.util.List;

 import org.kuali.student.r2.common.entity.BaseEntity;

 /**

  * @author ocleirig

  *

  */

 public interface FromDto<E extends BaseEntity, INFO> {

         /**

          * Defines a mechanism to merge the source info data into an entity.  Possilbily resulting in orphaned entities that

          * @param info the source data

          * @return list of orphans that were created by the dto to entity conversion.

          * 

          */

         public List<E>fromDto(INFO info);

 }