/*
 * Copyright (c) 2005, 2007 IBM Corporation 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:
 *   IBM - initial API and implementation
 *
 * $Id: QualifierValue.java,v 1.4 2007/04/25 17:47:05 khussey Exp $
 */
package org.eclipse.uml2.uml;

import java.util.Map;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.DiagnosticChain;

/**
 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
 * A representation of the model object '<em><b>Qualifier Value</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
 * A qualifier value is not an action. It is an element that identifies links. It gives a single qualifier within a link end data specification.
 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
 *
 * <p>
 * The following features are supported:
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.QualifierValue#getQualifier <em>Qualifier</em>}</li>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.QualifierValue#getValue <em>Value</em>}</li>
 * </ul>
 * </p>
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getQualifierValue()
 * @model
 * @generated
 */
public interface QualifierValue
		extends Element {

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Qualifier</b></em>' reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * Attribute representing the qualifier for which the value is to be specified.
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Qualifier</em>' reference.
	 * @see #setQualifier(Property)
	 * @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getQualifierValue_Qualifier()
	 * @model required="true" ordered="false"
	 * @generated
	 */
	Property getQualifier();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.QualifierValue#getQualifier <em>Qualifier</em>}' reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Qualifier</em>' reference.
	 * @see #getQualifier()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setQualifier(Property value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Value</b></em>' reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * Input pin from which the specified value for the qualifier is taken.
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Value</em>' reference.
	 * @see #setValue(InputPin)
	 * @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getQualifierValue_Value()
	 * @model required="true" ordered="false"
	 * @generated
	 */
	InputPin getValue();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.QualifierValue#getValue <em>Value</em>}' reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Value</em>' reference.
	 * @see #getValue()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setValue(InputPin value);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * The qualifier attribute must be a qualifier of the association end of the link-end data.
	 * self.LinkEndData.end->collect(qualifier)->includes(self.qualifier)
	 * @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 validateQualifierAttribute(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map<Object, Object> context);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * The type of the qualifier value input pin is the same as the type of the qualifier attribute.
	 * self.value.type = self.qualifier.type
	 * @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 validateTypeOfQualifier(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map<Object, Object> context);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * The multiplicity of the qualifier value input pin is "1..1".
	 * self.value.multiplicity.is(1,1)
	 * @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 validateMultiplicityOfQualifier(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map<Object, Object> context);

} // QualifierValue