01: /*
02:
03: Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.sql.dictionary.UniqueSQLObjectDescriptor
04:
05: Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
06: contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
07: this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
08: The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
09: (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
10: the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
11:
12: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
13:
14: Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
15: distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
16: WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
17: See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
18: limitations under the License.
19:
20: */
21:
22: package org.apache.derby.iapi.sql.dictionary;
23:
24: import org.apache.derby.iapi.error.StandardException;
25:
26: import org.apache.derby.catalog.UUID;
27:
28: /**
29: * This is a descriptor for something that is a
30: * SQL object that has the following properties:
31: * <UL>
32: * <LI> resides in a schema </LI>
33: * <LI> has a name (that is unique when combined with schema) </LI>
34: * <LI> has a unique identifier (UUID) </LI>
35: * </UL>
36: *
37: * UUIDS.
38: *
39: * @author jamie
40: */
41: public interface UniqueSQLObjectDescriptor extends
42: UniqueTupleDescriptor {
43: /**
44: * Get the name of this object. E.g. for a table descriptor,
45: * this will be the table name.
46: *
47: * @return the name
48: */
49: public String getName();
50:
51: /**
52: * Get the objects schema descriptor
53: *
54: * @return the schema descriptor
55: *
56: * @exception StandardException on error
57: */
58: public SchemaDescriptor getSchemaDescriptor()
59: throws StandardException;
60: }
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