/*
 * 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: Reception.java,v 1.3 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>Reception</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
 * A reception is a declaration stating that a classifier is prepared to react to the receipt of a signal. A reception designates a signal and specifies the expected behavioral response. The details of handling a signal are specified by the behavior associated with the reception or the classifier itself.
 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
 *
 * <p>
 * The following features are supported:
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.Reception#getSignal <em>Signal</em>}</li>
 * </ul>
 * </p>
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getReception()
 * @model
 * @generated
 */
public interface Reception
		extends BehavioralFeature {

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Signal</b></em>' reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * The signal that this reception handles.
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Signal</em>' reference.
	 * @see #setSignal(Signal)
	 * @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getReception_Signal()
	 * @model ordered="false"
	 * @generated
	 */
	Signal getSignal();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.Reception#getSignal <em>Signal</em>}' reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Signal</em>' reference.
	 * @see #getSignal()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setSignal(Signal value);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * A Reception can not be a query.
	 * not self.isQuery
	 * @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 validateNotQuery(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map<Object, Object> context);

} // Reception