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 * Copyright (c) 2006, 2018 IBM Corporation, Zeligsoft Inc., and others.
 * All rights reserved.   This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v2.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *   IBM - Initial API and implementation
 *   Zeligsoft - Bug 207365
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ocl.types;

import java.util.Map;
import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.DiagnosticChain;
import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.EList;
import org.eclipse.ocl.expressions.CollectionKind;
import org.eclipse.ocl.utilities.PredefinedType;
import org.eclipse.ocl.utilities.TypedASTNode;

/**
 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
 * A representation of the model object '<em><b>Collection Type</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <p>
 * The following features are supported:
 * </p>
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.ocl.types.CollectionType#getElementType <em>Element Type</em>}</li>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.ocl.types.CollectionType#getKind <em>Kind</em>}</li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.ocl.types.TypesPackage#getCollectionType()
 * @model
 * @generated
 */
public interface CollectionType<C, O>
		extends PredefinedType<O>, TypedASTNode {

	String SINGLETON_NAME = "Collection"; //$NON-NLS-1$

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Element Type</b></em>' reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Element Type</em>' reference isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Element Type</em>' reference.
	 * @see #setElementType(Object)
	 * @see org.eclipse.ocl.types.TypesPackage#getCollectionType_ElementType()
	 * @model kind="reference"
	 * @generated
	 */
	C getElementType();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.ocl.types.CollectionType#getElementType <em>Element Type</em>}' reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Element Type</em>' reference.
	 * @see #getElementType()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setElementType(C value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Kind</b></em>' attribute.
	 * The literals are from the enumeration {@link org.eclipse.ocl.expressions.CollectionKind}.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Collection Kind</em>' attribute isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Kind</em>' attribute.
	 * @see org.eclipse.ocl.expressions.CollectionKind
	 * @see org.eclipse.ocl.types.TypesPackage#getCollectionType_Kind()
	 * @model required="true" transient="true" changeable="false" volatile="true"
	 * @generated
	 */
	CollectionKind getKind();

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * self.name = 'Collection(' + self.elementType.name + ')'
	 * @param diagnostics The chain of diagnostics to which problems are to be appended.
	 * @param context The cache of context-specific information.
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean checkCollectionTypeName(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map<Object, Object> context);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * self->forAll(not oclIsInvalid())
	 * @param diagnostics The chain of diagnostics to which problems are to be appended.
	 * @param context The cache of context-specific information.
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean checkNoInvalidValues(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map<Object, Object> context);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Iterators</em>' reference list isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	EList<O> oclIterators();

} // CollectionType