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/*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc.
*
* Licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 1.1
* with a permitted attribution clause. You may obtain a
* copy of the License at
*
* http://www.alfresco.org/legal/license.txt
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
* software distributed under the License is distributed on an
* "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
* either express or implied. See the License for the specific
* language governing permissions and limitations under the
* License.
*/
package org.alfresco.service.cmr.dictionary;
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 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 the indexing will be done in the background and may be out of date.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();
}