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/**
 * Copyright (c) 2010 Daniel Murphy
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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 * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 * 
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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 * 
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 * THE SOFTWARE.
 */
/**
 * Created at 2:20:29 PM, Apr 5, 2010
 */
package com.dmurph.mvc;

/**
 * This interface allows checking to see if an object is changed (is "dirty").
 * @author Daniel Murphy
 */
public interface IDirtyable {
	
	/**
	 * @return if the object is dirty, if it was changed
	 * since the last time {@link #setDirty(boolean)} was called
	 * with false.
	 */
	public boolean isDirty();
	
	/**
	 * Sets if the object is dirty or not
	 * @param argDirty
	 */
	public void setDirty(boolean argDirty);
}