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 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0, which accompanies this distribution
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package org.eclipse.jpt.core.context;

/**
 * 
 * 
 * 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 DiscriminatorColumn extends NamedColumn
{
	String DEFAULT_NAME = "DTYPE";

	DiscriminatorType getDiscriminatorType();

	DiscriminatorType getDefaultDiscriminatorType();
		String DEFAULT_DISCRIMINATOR_TYPE_PROPERTY = "defaultDiscriminatorTypeProperty";
		DiscriminatorType DEFAULT_DISCRIMINATOR_TYPE = DiscriminatorType.STRING;
		
	DiscriminatorType getSpecifiedDiscriminatorType();
	void setSpecifiedDiscriminatorType(DiscriminatorType newSpecifiedDiscriminatorType);
		String SPECIFIED_DISCRIMINATOR_TYPE_PROPERTY = "specifiedDiscriminatorTypeProperty";


	Integer getLength();

	Integer getDefaultLength();
		Integer DEFAULT_LENGTH = Integer.valueOf(31);
		String DEFAULT_LENGTH_PROPERTY = "defaultLengthProperty";

	Integer getSpecifiedLength();
	void setSpecifiedLength(Integer value);
		String SPECIFIED_LENGTH_PROPERTY = "spcifiedLengthProperty";

}