001    /*
002     * Copyright 2011 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     * 
008     * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009     * 
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    package org.kuali.kfs.sys.document.validation;
017    
018    /**
019     * Even as we make perfectly good classes, the Maw of Spring calls out for Validations to eat and to proxy.  We cannot argue with the beast; this being Java,
020     * we may not subsume to the two concepts into one; thus we find ourselves, exhuasted and outraged, with no choice but to slave and feed Spring interfaces 
021     * such as this, causing the rotted wyrm to spew out the beans we do crave.  Such wretched souls are we!
022     */
023    public interface ValidationFieldConvertible {
024        /**
025         * Gets the sourceEventProperty attribute, the property of the event to transfer to the validation
026         * @return Returns the sourceEventProperty.
027         */
028        public abstract String getSourceEventProperty();
029        
030        /**
031         * Gets the targetValidationProperty attribute, the property on the validation to transfer information from the event to
032         * @return Returns the targetValidationProperty.
033         */
034        public abstract String getTargetValidationProperty();
035    }