alfresco-community-repo/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/policy/BehaviourBinding.java

package org.alfresco.repo.policy;

import org.alfresco.api.AlfrescoPublicApi;

/**
 * A Behaviour Binding represents the way in which a Behaviour is bound
 * to a Policy i.e. the key.
 * 
 * @author David Caruana
 *
 */
@AlfrescoPublicApi
public interface BehaviourBinding
{
    /**
     * Gets a generalised form of the Binding.
     * 
     * For example, if the binding key is hierarchical, return the parent
     * key.
     * 
     * @return  the generalised form (or null, if there isn't one)
     */
    BehaviourBinding generaliseBinding();
}