/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2008 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.context.orm;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.AccessType;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.PersistentType;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.TypeMapping;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.XmlContextNode;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.java.JavaPersistentType;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.resource.orm.AbstractXmlTypeMapping;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.resource.orm.XmlEntityMappings;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.utility.TextRange;

/**
 * 
 * 
 * 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 OrmTypeMapping
	extends TypeMapping, XmlContextNode, PersistentType.Owner
{
	String JAVA_PERSISTENT_TYPE_PROPERTY = "javaPersistentType"; //$NON-NLS-1$

	String getClass_();
	void setClass(String newClass);
	String CLASS_PROPERTY = "class"; //$NON-NLS-1$

	AccessType getAccess();
	AccessType getDefaultAccess();
	String DEFAULT_ACCESS_PROPERTY = "defaultAccess"; //$NON-NLS-1$

	AccessType getSpecifiedAccess();
	void setSpecifiedAccess(AccessType newSpecifiedAccess);
	String SPECIFIED_ACCESS_PROPERTY = "specifiedAccess"; //$NON-NLS-1$

	
	boolean isMetadataComplete();
	Boolean getSpecifiedMetadataComplete();
	void setSpecifiedMetadataComplete(Boolean newSpecifiedMetadataComplete);
		String SPECIFIED_METADATA_COMPLETE_PROPERTY = "specifiedMetadataComplete"; //$NON-NLS-1$

	boolean isDefaultMetadataComplete();
		String DEFAULT_METADATA_COMPLETE_PROPERTY = "defaultMetadataComplete"; //$NON-NLS-1$

	
	/**
	 * type mappings are a sequence in the orm schema. We must keep
	 * the list of type mappings in the appropriate order so the wtp xml 
	 * translators will write them to the xml in that order and they
	 * will adhere to the schema.  
	 * 
	 * Each concrete subclass of XmlTypeMapping must implement this
	 * method and return an int that matches it's order in the schema
	 * @return
	 */
	int getXmlSequence();

	void removeFromResourceModel(XmlEntityMappings entityMappings);
		
	AbstractXmlTypeMapping addToResourceModel(XmlEntityMappings entityMappings);

	void initializeFrom(OrmTypeMapping oldMapping);

	AbstractXmlTypeMapping getResourceTypeMapping();
	
	JavaPersistentType getJavaPersistentType();

	String getOrmType();

	TextRange getSelectionTextRange();

	TextRange getAttributesTextRange();
	
	boolean containsOffset(int textOffset);
	

	// ********** copvariant overrides **********

	OrmPersistentType getPersistentType();
	
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	Iterator<OrmPersistentAttribute> overridableAttributes();
	
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	Iterator<OrmPersistentAttribute> overridableAssociations();

}