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1   /*
2    * The Kuali Financial System, a comprehensive financial management system for higher education.
3    * 
4    * Copyright 2005-2014 The Kuali Foundation
5    * 
6    * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
7    * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
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19  package org.kuali.kfs.sys.document.web;
20  
21  /**
22   * A contract for accounting line view layout elements which join tables as part of an AccountingLineViewLines element
23   */
24  public interface AccountingLineViewLineFillingElement extends TableJoining, ReadOnlyable {
25      /**
26       * Finds the number of table cells this line expects to take up
27       * @return the number of displayed table cells this line expects to render as
28       */
29      public abstract int getDisplayingFieldWidth();
30      
31      /**
32       * A way to ask the line filling element if it wants its cell to be stretched to fill the line
33       * @return true if the line filling element should stretch its cell to fill the line; if false (or if the line contains more than a single cell), the line will be padded out with an empty cell
34       */
35      public abstract boolean shouldStretchToFillLine();
36  }