Package org.kuali.rice.kim.api.identity.principal

Interface PrincipalContract

All Superinterfaces:

GloballyUnique, Inactivatable, Versioned

All Known Implementing Classes:

Principal, Principal.Builder

public interface PrincipalContract
extends Inactivatable, Versioned, GloballyUnique

This is a contract for Principal. A principal represents an entity that can authenticate. A principal has an ID that is used to uniquely identify it. It also has a name that represents the principal's username. All principals are associated with one and only one entity.

Author:

Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getEntityId()	Gets this PrincipalContract's identity id.
String	getPrincipalId()	Gets this PrincipalContract's id.
String	getPrincipalName()	Gets this PrincipalContract's name.

Methods inherited from interface org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.GloballyUnique

getObjectId

Methods inherited from interface org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.active.Inactivatable

isActive

Methods inherited from interface org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.Versioned

getVersionNumber

Method Details

getPrincipalId

String getPrincipalId()

Gets this PrincipalContract's id.

Returns:

the id for this PrincipalContract, or null if none has been assigned.

getPrincipalName

String getPrincipalName()

Gets this PrincipalContract's name.

Returns:

the name for this PrincipalContract, this value cannot be null.

getEntityId

String getEntityId()

Gets this PrincipalContract's identity id.

Returns:

the identity id for this PrincipalContract, or null if none has been assigned.