01: /*
02: * Copyright 2005-2006 The Kuali Foundation.
03: *
04: * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 1.0 (the "License");
05: * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
06: * You may obtain a copy of the License at
07: *
08: * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php
09: *
10: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14: * limitations under the License.
15: */
16: package org.kuali.core.lookup.keyvalues;
17:
18: import java.util.List;
19: import java.util.Map;
20:
21: /**
22: * This interface defines basic methods value finders.
23: *
24: *
25: */
26: public interface KeyValuesFinder {
27:
28: /**
29: * Builds a list of key values representations for valid value selections.
30: *
31: * @return List of KeyValue objects.
32: */
33: public List getKeyValues();
34:
35: /**
36: * Returns a map with the key as the key of the map and the label as the value. Used to render the label instead of the code in
37: * the jsp when the field is readonly.
38: *
39: * @return
40: */
41: public Map getKeyLabelMap();
42:
43: /**
44: * Returns the label for the associated key.
45: *
46: * @param key
47: * @return
48: */
49: public String getKeyLabel(String key);
50: }
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