/*
* Copyright (c) 2005, 2007 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM - initial API and implementation
*
* $Id: DurationObservation.java,v 1.8 2007/06/12 12:53:16 khussey Exp $
*/
package org.eclipse.uml2.uml;
import java.util.Map;
import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.DiagnosticChain;
import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.EList;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EClass;
/**
*
* A representation of the model object 'Duration Observation'.
*
*
*
* A duration observation is a reference to a duration during an execution. It points out the element(s) in the model to observe and whether the observations are when this model element is entered or when it is exited.
*
*
*
* The following features are supported:
*
* - {@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.DurationObservation#getEvents Event}
* - {@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.DurationObservation#getFirstEvents First Event}
*
*
*
* @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getDurationObservation()
* @model
* @generated
*/
public interface DurationObservation
extends Observation {
/**
* Returns the value of the 'Event' reference list.
* The list contents are of type {@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.NamedElement}.
*
*
*
* The observation is determined by the entering or exiting of the event element during execution.
*
* @return the value of the 'Event' reference list.
* @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getDurationObservation_Event()
* @model required="true" upper="2" ordered="false"
* @generated
*/
EList getEvents();
/**
* Retrieves the first {@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.NamedElement} with the specified 'Name' from the 'Event' reference list.
*
*
* @param name The 'Name' of the {@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.NamedElement} to retrieve, or null.
* @return The first {@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.NamedElement} with the specified 'Name', or null.
* @see #getEvents()
* @generated
*/
NamedElement getEvent(String name);
/**
* Retrieves the first {@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.NamedElement} with the specified 'Name' from the 'Event' reference list.
*
*
* @param name The 'Name' of the {@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.NamedElement} to retrieve, or null.
* @param ignoreCase Whether to ignore case in {@link java.lang.String} comparisons.
* @param eClass The Ecore class of the {@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.NamedElement} to retrieve, or null.
* @return The first {@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.NamedElement} with the specified 'Name', or null.
* @see #getEvents()
* @generated
*/
NamedElement getEvent(String name, boolean ignoreCase, EClass eClass);
/**
* Returns the value of the 'First Event' attribute list.
* The list contents are of type {@link java.lang.Boolean}.
*
*
*
* The value of firstEvent[i] is related to event[i] (where i is 1 or 2). If firstEvent[i] is true, then the corresponding observation event is the first time instant the execution enters event[i]. If firstEvent[i] is false, then the corresponding observation event is the time instant the execution exits event[i]. Default value is true applied when event[i] refers an element that represents only one time instant.
*
* @return the value of the 'First Event' attribute list.
* @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getDurationObservation_FirstEvent()
* @model default="true" dataType="org.eclipse.uml2.uml.Boolean" upper="2" ordered="false"
* @generated
*/
EList getFirstEvents();
/**
*
*
*
* The multiplicity of firstEvent must be 2 if the multiplicity of event is 2. Otherwise the multiplicity of firstEvent is 0.
* if (event->size() = 2)
* then (firstEvent->size() = 2) else (firstEvent->size() = 0)
* @param diagnostics The chain of diagnostics to which problems are to be appended.
* @param context The cache of context-specific information.
*
* @model
* @generated
*/
boolean validateFirstEventMultiplicity(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
Map context);
} // DurationObservation