01: /*
02: * Copyright 2007 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.module.vendor.util;
17:
18: /**
19: * Defines methods that must be implemented by classes providing a VendorRoutingComparable.
20: */
21: public interface VendorRoutingComparable {
22:
23: /**
24: * A predicate to test equality of all the persisted attributes of an instance of this class, not including
25: * member collections. This is used to help determine whether to route.
26: *
27: * @param toCompare An Object, which should be of this class if the comparison is to be meaningful.
28: * @return True if all non-derived attributes of the given object other than collections are equal to this one's. False if the
29: * given object is null or of a different class.
30: */
31: public boolean isEqualForRouting(Object toCompare);
32:
33: }
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