001/**
002 * Copyright 2005-2016 The Kuali Foundation
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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009 *
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015 */
016package org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.constraint.resolver;
017
018import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.capability.Constrainable;
019import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.constraint.Constraint;
020
021import java.util.List;
022
023/**
024 * An interface that provides a lookup of constraints for a specific constrainable attribute definition. Implemented by constraint
025 * providers as a mechanism to store functional lookups in a map, keyed by constraint type, for example. 
026 * 
027 * {@see AttributeDefinitionConstraintProvider} for a number of examples. 
028 * 
029 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
030 * @param <T>
031 * @since 1.1
032 */
033public interface ConstraintResolver<T extends Constrainable> {
034        
035        public <C extends Constraint> List<C> resolve(T definition);
036        
037}