/*
 * Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 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: Continuation.java,v 1.4 2006/05/12 20:38:08 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>Continuation</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
 * A continuation is a syntactic way to define continuations of different branches of an alternative combined fragment. Continuations is intuitively similar to labels representing intermediate points in a flow of control.
 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
 *
 * <p>
 * The following features are supported:
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.Continuation#isSetting <em>Setting</em>}</li>
 * </ul>
 * </p>
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getContinuation()
 * @model
 * @generated
 */
public interface Continuation
		extends InteractionFragment {

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Setting</b></em>' attribute.
	 * The default value is <code>"true"</code>.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * True: when the Continuation is at the end of the enclosing InteractionFragment and False when it is in the beginning.
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Setting</em>' attribute.
	 * @see #setSetting(boolean)
	 * @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getContinuation_Setting()
	 * @model default="true" dataType="org.eclipse.uml2.uml.Boolean" required="true" ordered="false"
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean isSetting();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.Continuation#isSetting <em>Setting</em>}' attribute.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Setting</em>' attribute.
	 * @see #isSetting()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setSetting(boolean value);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * Continuations with the same name may only cover the same set of Lifelines (within one Classifier).
	 * true
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean validateSameName(DiagnosticChain diagnostics, Map context);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * Continuations are always global in the enclosing InteractionFragment e.g. it always covers all Lifelines covered by the enclosing InteractionFragment.
	 * true
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean validateGlobal(DiagnosticChain diagnostics, Map context);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * Continuations always occur as the very first InteractionFragment or the very last InteractionFragment of the enclosing InteractionFragment.
	 * true
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean validateFirstOrLastInteractionFragment(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map context);

} // Continuation