/**
 * Copyright (c) 2011, 2015 - Lunifera GmbH (Gross Enzersdorf, Austria), Loetz GmbH&Co.KG (69115 Heidelberg, Germany)
 * 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:
 *         Florian Pirchner - Initial implementation
 */
package org.eclipse.osbp.dsl.common.datatypes;

import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport;

public interface IDto {

	/**
	 * @see PropertyChangeSupport#addPropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener)
	 */
	public void addPropertyChangeListener(final PropertyChangeListener listener);

	/**
	 * @see PropertyChangeSupport#addPropertyChangeListener(String,
	 *      PropertyChangeListener)
	 */
	public void addPropertyChangeListener(final String propertyName, final PropertyChangeListener listener);

	/**
	 * @see PropertyChangeSupport#removePropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener)
	 */
	public void removePropertyChangeListener(final PropertyChangeListener listener);

	/**
	 * @see PropertyChangeSupport#removePropertyChangeListener(String,
	 *      PropertyChangeListener)
	 */
	public void removePropertyChangeListener(final String propertyName, final PropertyChangeListener listener);


	public default boolean equalVersions(final Object obj) {
		// for beans always return true. Entity-Dtos need to override.
		return true;
	}
}