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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016package org.kuali.rice.krad.data.metadata.impl;
017
018import org.kuali.rice.krad.data.metadata.DataObjectAttribute;
019
020/**
021 * Interface implemented by the classes within the provider, but that we don't want to expose to use outside of the
022 * krad-data module.
023 * 
024 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
025 */
026public interface DataObjectAttributeInternal extends DataObjectAttribute, MetadataCommonInternal {
027        /**
028    * If this data object attribute is wrapping another (generated by a lower metadata provider), return that.
029    *
030    * @return <b>null</b> if this attribute is not wrapping another.
031    */
032        DataObjectAttribute getEmbeddedAttribute();
033
034    /**
035    * Sets embedded attribute.
036    *
037    * @param embeddedAttribute embedded attribute.
038    */
039        void setEmbeddedAttribute(DataObjectAttribute embeddedAttribute);
040}