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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.wst.ws.internal.datamodel;
/**
* This is the abstract class for properties of a Node.
* Every property has an immutable name and a value of type Object.
*/
public interface Property
{
// Copyright
public static final String copyright = "(c) Copyright IBM Corporation 2000, 2002.";
/**
* Every Node has a property called "name" that is equivalent
* to and kept synchronized with Node.getName() and Node.setName().
*/
public static final String NAME = "name";
/**
* Returns a shallow clone of this <code>Property</code>.
* Property key and value references are cloned,
* but the value objects themselves are not cloned.
* @return Property A new Property.
*/
public Property shallowClone ();
/**
* Returns the name of this node.
* @return String The name of this node.
*/
public String getName ();
/**
* Sets the value of this property.
* @param value The value to set. Any previous value is replaced.
*/
public void setValue ( Object value );
/**
* Returns the value of this property.
* @return Object The value of this property, possibly null.
*/
public Object getValue ();
/**
* Sets the value of this property as a string.
* @param value The string to set. Any previous value is replaced.
* The type of the previous value, if any, is of no consequence.
*/
public void setValueAsString ( String value );
/**
* Returns the value of this property as a string.
* @return String the value of this property as a string, possibly null.
* If the set value is an arbitrary Object, then Object.toString() is
* returned.
*/
public String getValueAsString ();
}
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