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.
006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007 *
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009 *
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015 */
016package org.kuali.rice.krad.data.metadata.impl;
017
018import org.kuali.rice.krad.data.metadata.DataObjectMetadata;
019
020
021/**
022 * Additional methods which are needed to support the linking between embedded metadata objects but that we don't want
023 * to expose on our public interfaces.
024 * 
025 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
026 */
027public interface DataObjectMetadataInternal extends DataObjectMetadata {
028        /**
029         * The embedded DataObjectMetadata which will be used to fill in values not specified by this DataObjectMetadata.
030         * 
031         * @return the embedded metadata, or no if no metadata is embedded
032         */
033        DataObjectMetadataInternal getEmbedded();
034
035    /**
036    * Sets the embedded DataObjectMetadata.
037    *
038    * @param embedded or null
039    */
040        void setEmbedded(DataObjectMetadataInternal embedded);
041}