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43: package org.deegree.model.feature.schema;
44:
45: import org.deegree.datatypes.QualifiedName;
46: import org.deegree.datatypes.Types;
47:
48: /**
49: * Represents a property type in a GML feature type definition.
50: *
51: * @author <a href="mailto:poth@lat-lon.de">Andreas Poth</a>
52: * @author <a href="mailto:mschneider@lat-lon.de">Markus Schneider </a>
53: * @author <a href="mailto:deshmukh@lat-lon.de">Anup Deshmukh </a>
54: * @author last edited by: $Author: apoth $
55: *
56: * @version $Revision: 9343 $, $Date: 2007-12-27 05:30:32 -0800 (Thu, 27 Dec 2007) $
57: */
58: public interface PropertyType {
59:
60: /**
61: * Returns the name of the property.
62: *
63: * @return the name of the property
64: */
65: public QualifiedName getName();
66:
67: /**
68: * Returns the code of the data type that the property contains.
69: *
70: * @see Types
71: * @return the code of the data type that the property contains
72: */
73: public int getType();
74:
75: /**
76: * Returns the minimum number of occurrences of the property within a feature. The method
77: * returns 0 if the property is nillable.
78: *
79: * @return minimum number of occurrences of the property, 0 if the property is nillable
80: */
81: int getMinOccurs();
82:
83: /**
84: * Returns the maximum number of occurrences of the property within a feature. The method
85: * returns -1 if the number of occurences is unbounded.
86: *
87: * @return maximum number of occurrences of the property, -1 if the number of occurences is
88: * unbounded
89: */
90: int getMaxOccurs();
91:
92: }
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