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 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0, which accompanies this distribution
 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html.
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     Oracle - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.persistence;

import java.util.ListIterator;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.JpaStructureNode;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.resource.persistence.XmlPersistence;

/**
 * 
 * 
 * Provisional API: This interface is part of an interim API that is still
 * under development and expected to change significantly before reaching
 * stability. It is available at this early stage to solicit feedback from
 * pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API
 * will almost certainly be broken (repeatedly) as the API evolves.
 */
public interface Persistence extends PersistenceJpaContextNode, JpaStructureNode
{
	// **************** persistence units **************************************
	
	/**
	 * String constant associated with changes to the persistence units list
	 */
	public final static String PERSISTENCE_UNITS_LIST = "persistenceUnits";
	
	/**
	 * Return an iterator on the list of persistence units.
	 * This will not be null.
	 */
	ListIterator<PersistenceUnit> persistenceUnits();
	
	/**
	 * Return the size of the persistence unit list.
	 * @return
	 */
	int persistenceUnitsSize();
	
	/**
	 * Add a persistence unit to the persistence node and return the object 
	 * representing it.
	 */
	PersistenceUnit addPersistenceUnit();
	
	/**
	 * Add a persistence unit to the persistence node at the specified index and 
	 * return the object representing it.
	 */
	PersistenceUnit addPersistenceUnit(int index);
	
	/**
	 * Remove the persistence unit from the persistence node.
	 */
	void removePersistenceUnit(PersistenceUnit persistenceUnit);
	
	/**
	 * Remove the persistence unit at the specified index from the persistence node.
	 */
	void removePersistenceUnit(int index);
	
	
	// **************** updating ***********************************************
		
	void update(XmlPersistence persistence);
	
	
	// **************** text range *********************************************
	
	/**
	 * Return whether the text representation of this persistence contains
	 * the given text offset
	 */
	boolean containsOffset(int textOffset);
	
}