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/*
* Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Alfresco Software Limited.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
* 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 General Public License for more details.
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
* As a special exception to the terms and conditions of version 2.0 of
* the GPL, you may redistribute this Program in connection with Free/Libre
* and Open Source Software ("FLOSS") applications as described in Alfresco's
* FLOSS exception. You should have recieved a copy of the text describing
* the FLOSS exception, and it is also available here:
* http://www.alfresco.com/legal/licensing"
*/
package org.alfresco.service.cmr.dictionary;
import java.util.List;
import org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName;
/**
* Read-only definition of a Property.
*
* @author David Caruana
*/
public interface PropertyDefinition
{
/**
* @return defining model
*/
public ModelDefinition getModel();
/**
* @return the qualified name of the property
*/
public QName getName();
/**
* @return the human-readable class title
*/
public String getTitle();
/**
* @return the human-readable class description
*/
public String getDescription();
/**
* @return the default value
*/
public String getDefaultValue();
/**
* @return the qualified name of the property type
*/
public DataTypeDefinition getDataType();
/**
* @return Returns the owning class's defintion
*/
public ClassDefinition getContainerClass();
/**
* @return true => multi-valued, false => single-valued
*/
public boolean isMultiValued();
/**
* @return true => mandatory, false => optional
*/
public boolean isMandatory();
/**
* @return Returns true if the system enforces the presence of
* {@link #isMandatory() mandatory} properties, or false if the system
* just marks objects that don't have all mandatory properties present.
*/
public boolean isMandatoryEnforced();
/**
* @return true => system maintained, false => client may maintain
*/
public boolean isProtected();
/**
* @return true => indexed, false => not indexed
*/
public boolean isIndexed();
/**
* @return true => stored in index
*/
public boolean isStoredInIndex();
/**
* @return true => tokenised when it is indexed (the stored value will not be tokenised)
*/
public boolean isTokenisedInIndex();
/**
* All non atomic properties will be indexed at the same time.
*
* @return true => The attribute must be indexed in the commit of the transaction.
* false => the indexing will be done in the background and may be out of date.
*/
public boolean isIndexedAtomically();
/**
* Get all constraints that apply to the property value
*
* @return Returns a list of property constraint definitions
*/
public List<ConstraintDefinition> getConstraints();
}