ControlInitializer.java

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package org.jdal.ui.bind;

/**
 * Interface for control initializers. Initialize controls 
 * based on external associations as JPA annotations or JDAL 
 * annotations.
 * 
 * @author Jose Luis Martin 
 * @since 1.1
 */
public interface ControlInitializer {
	
	
	/**
	 * Initalize control
	 * @param control control to initialize
	 * @param property property name
	 * @param clazz backing object class, ie model
	 */
	void initialize(Object control, String property, InitializationConfig config);
	
	/**
	 * Sets if initialize object, ie drop ORM  proxies.
	 * @param initializeEntities
	 */
	void setInitializeEntities(boolean initializeEntities);
}