Paul Holmes-Higgin cefda8c965 Updated header to LGPL
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/*
* Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Alfresco Software Limited.
*
* This file is part of Alfresco
*
* Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Alfresco 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with Alfresco. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.alfresco.service.cmr.dictionary;
import java.util.List;
import org.alfresco.repo.dictionary.IndexTokenisationMode;
import org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName;
/**
* Read-only definition of a Property.
*
* @author David Caruana
*/
public interface PropertyDefinition extends ClassAttributeDefinition
{
/**
* @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();
public boolean isOverride();
/**
* @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 IndexTokenisationMode.TREU => tokenised when it is indexed (the
* stored value will not be tokenised)
*/
public IndexTokenisationMode getIndexTokenisationMode();
/**
* 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();
}