001 //$HeadURL: svn+ssh://jwilden@svn.wald.intevation.org/deegree/base/branches/2.5_testing/src/org/deegree/model/feature/schema/PropertyType.java $ 002 /*---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 003 This file is part of deegree, http://deegree.org/ 004 Copyright (C) 2001-2009 by: 005 Department of Geography, University of Bonn 006 and 007 lat/lon GmbH 008 009 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under 010 the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free 011 Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) 012 any later version. 013 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 014 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS 015 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more 016 details. 017 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 018 along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 019 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA 020 021 Contact information: 022 023 lat/lon GmbH 024 Aennchenstr. 19, 53177 Bonn 025 Germany 026 http://lat-lon.de/ 027 028 Department of Geography, University of Bonn 029 Prof. Dr. Klaus Greve 030 Postfach 1147, 53001 Bonn 031 Germany 032 http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/deegree/ 033 034 e-mail: info@deegree.org 035 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ 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 }