1 /*
2 * Copyright 2014 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
13 * permissions and limitations under the License.
14 */
15 package org.kuali.student.core.ges.infc;
16
17
18 public interface CopyableSerializable {
19
20 /**
21 *
22 * returns a copy of this CopyableSerializable
23 */
24 public CopyableSerializable copy();
25
26 /**
27 *
28 * returns String representation of the object.
29 */
30 public String serialize();
31
32 /**
33 *
34 * returns CopyableSerializable given the serialized form of the object.
35 */
36 public CopyableSerializable unSerialize(String serializedObject);
37
38 }