/*
* The Kuali Financial System, a comprehensive financial management system for higher education.
*
* Copyright 2005-2014 The Kuali Foundation
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
* License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.kuali.kfs.vnd.businessobject;
/**
* Defines methods that must be implemented by classes providing a VendorRoutingComparable.
*/
public interface VendorRoutingComparable {
/**
* A predicate to test equality of all the persisted attributes of an instance of this class, not including
* member collections. This is used to help determine whether to route.
*
* @param toCompare An Object, which should be of this class if the comparison is to be meaningful.
* @return True if all non-derived attributes of the given object other than collections are equal to this one's. False if the
* given object is null or of a different class.
*/
public boolean isEqualForRouting(Object toCompare);
}