framework/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.discovery/src/org/eclipse/ecf/discovery/IServiceProperties.java

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 * Copyright (c) 2004 Composent, Inc. and others. 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: Composent, Inc. - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.ecf.discovery;

import java.util.Enumeration;

public interface IServiceProperties {
	/**
	 * Get property names.  This should return an Enumeration of String objects that identify all of the 
	 * names in this IServiceProperties instance
	 * @return Enumeration of all service property names as Strings
	 */
	public Enumeration getPropertyNames();
	/**
	 * Get property name as String.  Returns a valid String if there is a property of the given name.
	 * Returns null if there is no property by that name, or if the property has some other type than String.
	 * @param name the name of the property to return
	 * @return the property as a String
	 */
	public String getPropertyString(String name);
	/**
	 * Get property name as byte[].  Returns a non-null byte[] if there is a property of the given name.
	 * Returns null if there is no property by that name, or if the property has some other type than byte[].
	 * @param name the name of the property to return
	 * @return the property as a byte[]
	 */
	public byte [] getPropertyBytes(String name);
	/**
	 * Get property as an Object.  Returns a non-null Object if there is a property of the given name.
	 * Returns null if there is no property by that name.
	 * @param name the name of the property to return
	 * @return the property as an Object
	 */
	public Object getProperty(String name);
}