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  * 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"

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 package org.kuali.student.common.ui.client.configurable.mvc.binding;

 import org.kuali.student.common.ui.client.mvc.DataModel;

 /**

  * A model widget binding is used to translate data from the model to something the client side widget

  * can use to display it's data.  It is also used to translate from widget data to the appropriate expected

  * model data.

  * 

  * @author Kuali Student Team

  */

 public interface ModelWidgetBinding<WidgetType> {

     /**

      * Sets the model with the value from the widget

      * @param widget Widget to interpret the data from

      * @param DataModel model to have a value/values added to

      * @param path where in the model to store the data

      */

     public abstract void setModelValue(WidgetType widget, DataModel model, String path);

     /**

      * Sets the passed in widget with the appropriate data from the model

      * @param widget the widget to have its value set

      * @param model DataModel to retrieve the data from

      * @param path where in the model to get the data

      */

     public abstract void setWidgetValue(WidgetType widget, DataModel model, String path);

 }