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 * Copyright (c) 2007 Oracle. All rights reserved.
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 * 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.internal.mappings;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.EList;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.IJpaSourceObject;

/**
 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
 * A representation of the model object '<em><b>IQuery</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <p>
 * The following features are supported:
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.IQuery#getName <em>Name</em>}</li>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.IQuery#getQuery <em>Query</em>}</li>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.IQuery#getHints <em>Hints</em>}</li>
 * </ul>
 * </p>
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.JpaCoreMappingsPackage#getIQuery()
 * @model kind="class" interface="true" abstract="true"
 * @generated
 */
public interface IQuery extends IJpaSourceObject
{
	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Name</b></em>' attribute.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Name</em>' attribute isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Name</em>' attribute.
	 * @see #setName(String)
	 * @see org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.JpaCoreMappingsPackage#getIQuery_Name()
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	String getName();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.IQuery#getName <em>Name</em>}' attribute.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Name</em>' attribute.
	 * @see #getName()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setName(String value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Query</b></em>' attribute.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Query</em>' attribute isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Query</em>' attribute.
	 * @see #setQuery(String)
	 * @see org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.JpaCoreMappingsPackage#getIQuery_Query()
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	String getQuery();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.IQuery#getQuery <em>Query</em>}' attribute.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Query</em>' attribute.
	 * @see #getQuery()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setQuery(String value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Hints</b></em>' containment reference list.
	 * The list contents are of type {@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.IQueryHint}.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Hints</em>' containment reference list isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Hints</em>' containment reference list.
	 * @see org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.JpaCoreMappingsPackage#getIQuery_Hints()
	 * @model containment="true"
	 * @generated
	 */
	EList<IQueryHint> getHints();

	IQueryHint createQueryHint(int index);
} // IQuery