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036 package org.deegree.model.feature.schema;
037
038 import org.deegree.datatypes.QualifiedName;
039 import org.deegree.datatypes.Types;
040
041 /**
042 * Represents a property type in a GML feature type definition.
043 *
044 * @author <a href="mailto:poth@lat-lon.de">Andreas Poth</a>
045 * @author <a href="mailto:mschneider@lat-lon.de">Markus Schneider </a>
046 * @author <a href="mailto:deshmukh@lat-lon.de">Anup Deshmukh </a>
047 * @author last edited by: $Author: mschneider $
048 *
049 * @version $Revision: 18195 $, $Date: 2009-06-18 17:55:39 +0200 (Do, 18. Jun 2009) $
050 */
051 public interface PropertyType {
052
053 /**
054 * Returns the name of the property.
055 *
056 * @return the name of the property
057 */
058 public QualifiedName getName();
059
060 /**
061 * Returns the code of the data type that the property contains.
062 *
063 * @see Types
064 * @return the code of the data type that the property contains
065 */
066 public int getType();
067
068 /**
069 * Returns the minimum number of occurrences of the property within a feature. The method
070 * returns 0 if the property is nillable.
071 *
072 * @return minimum number of occurrences of the property, 0 if the property is nillable
073 */
074 int getMinOccurs();
075
076 /**
077 * Returns the maximum number of occurrences of the property within a feature. The method
078 * returns -1 if the number of occurences is unbounded.
079 *
080 * @return maximum number of occurrences of the property, -1 if the number of occurences is
081 * unbounded
082 */
083 int getMaxOccurs();
084
085 }