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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.context;

import org.eclipse.jpt.common.core.resource.java.JavaResourceAttribute;
import org.eclipse.jpt.jaxb.core.context.java.JavaContextNode;


/**
 * Represents a JAXB attribute mapping.
 * <p>
 * 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 3.1
 * @since 3.0
 */
public interface JaxbAttributeMapping
		extends JavaContextNode {
	
	String getKey();
	
	JavaResourceAttribute getJavaResourceAttribute();
	
	JaxbPersistentAttribute getPersistentAttribute();
	
	JaxbClassMapping getClassMapping();
	
	
	// ***** default *****
	
	String DEFAULT_PROPERTY = "default"; //$NON-NLS-1$
	
	/**
	 * Return whether the mapping is its attribute's <em>default</em> mapping
	 * (as opposed to its <em>specified</em> mapping).
	 */
	boolean isDefault();
	
	
	// ***** misc *****
	
	/**
	 * Return the (fully qualified) type of the attribute
	 * (or the item type if in a collection/array)
	 */
	String getBoundTypeName();
	
	/**
	 * Return the (fully qualified) type used to map the bound type. 
	 * (Usually the same as the value type, except when an XmlJavaTypeAdapter is used.)
	 */
	String getValueTypeName();
	
	/**
	 * Return the (fully qualified) type of the data actually written to xml.
	 * (Usually the same as the value type, except when an XmlIDREF is used.)
	 */
	String getDataTypeName();
	
	/**
	 * Return all directly referenced types, fully qualified.
	 * (Used for constructing Jaxb context)
	 */
	Iterable<String> getReferencedXmlTypeNames();
	
	/**
	 * Return whether the attribute is mapped to a particle
	 * (e.g. XmlElement, XmlElements, XmlElementRef, XmlElementRefs)
	 */
	boolean isParticleMapping();
	
	/**
	 * Return whether the attribute is specifically excluded from being mapped
	 * (e.g. XmlTransient)
	 */
	boolean isTransient();
}