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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.jaxb.core.resource.java;

import org.eclipse.jpt.utility.internal.iterables.ListIterable;

/**
 * Corresponds to the JAXB annotation
 * javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSeeAlso
 * 
 * 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.
 * 
 * @version 3.0
 * @since 3.0
 */
public interface XmlSeeAlsoAnnotation
	extends Annotation
{
	String ANNOTATION_NAME = JAXB.XML_SEE_ALSO;

	/**
	 * Corresponds to the 'value' element of the XmlSeeAlso annotation.
	 * Return an empty iterator if the element does not exist in Java.
	 * Return the portion of the value preceding ".class".
	 * <pre>
	 *     &#64;XmlSeeAlso({Foo.class, Bar.class})
	 * </pre>
	 * will return and iterable containing: "Foo", "Bar"
	 */
	ListIterable<String> getClasses();
		String CLASSES_LIST = "classes"; //$NON-NLS-1$
	
	/**
	 * Corresponds to the 'value' element of the XmlSeeAlso annotation.
	 */
	int getClassesSize();
	
	/**
	 * Corresponds to the 'value' element of the XmlSeeAlso annotation.
	 */
	void addClass(String clazz);
	
	/**
	 * Corresponds to the 'value' element of the XmlSeeAlso annotation.
	 */
	void addClass(int index, String clazz);
	
	/**
	 * Corresponds to the 'value' element of the XmlSeeAlso annotation.
	 */
	void moveClass(int targetIndex, int sourceIndex);

	/**
	 * Corresponds to the 'value' element of the XmlSeeAlso annotation.
	 */
	void removeClass(String clazz);

	/**
	 * Corresponds to the 'value' element of the XmlSeeAlso annotation.
	 */
	void removeClass(int index);

}