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 * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 BMW Car IT, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
 *
 * Contributors:
 * BMW Car IT - Initial API and implementation
 * Technische Universitaet Muenchen - Major refactoring and extension
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.emf.edapt.spi.migration;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EStructuralFeature;

/**
 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
 * A representation of the model object '<em><b>Slot</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
 * A slot holds the values of a feature
 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
 *
 * <p>
 * The following features are supported:
 * <ul>
 * <li>{@link org.eclipse.emf.edapt.spi.migration.Slot#getInstance <em>Instance</em>}</li>
 * </ul>
 * </p>
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.emf.edapt.spi.migration.MigrationPackage#getSlot()
 * @model abstract="true"
 *        annotation="http://www.eclipse.org/emf/2002/Ecore constraints='validFeature validMultiplicity'"
 * @generated
 */
public interface Slot {
	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Instance</b></em>' container reference.
	 * It is bidirectional and its opposite is '{@link org.eclipse.emf.edapt.spi.migration.Instance#getSlots
	 * <em>Slots</em>}'.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Instance</em>' container reference isn't clear, there really should be more of a
	 * description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * The instance to which this slot belongs
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 *
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Instance</em>' container reference.
	 * @see #setInstance(Instance)
	 * @see org.eclipse.emf.edapt.spi.migration.MigrationPackage#getSlot_Instance()
	 * @see org.eclipse.emf.edapt.spi.migration.Instance#getSlots
	 * @model opposite="slots" required="true" transient="false"
	 * @generated
	 */
	Instance getInstance();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.emf.edapt.spi.migration.Slot#getInstance <em>Instance</em>}' container
	 * reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Instance</em>' container reference.
	 * @see #getInstance()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setInstance(Instance value);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * Get the feature to which the slot conforms
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 *
	 * @model kind="operation"
	 * @generated
	 */
	EStructuralFeature getEFeature();

} // Slot