/*
 * 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: VariableAction.java,v 1.2 2006/12/14 15:49:28 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>Variable Action</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
 * VariableAction is an abstract class for actions that operate on a statically specified variable.
 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
 *
 * <p>
 * The following features are supported:
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.uml2.uml.VariableAction#getVariable <em>Variable</em>}</li>
 * </ul>
 * </p>
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getVariableAction()
 * @model abstract="true"
 * @generated
 */
public interface VariableAction
		extends Action {

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Variable</b></em>' reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * Variable to be read.
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Variable</em>' reference.
	 * @see #setVariable(Variable)
	 * @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getVariableAction_Variable()
	 * @model required="true" ordered="false"
	 * @generated
	 */
	Variable getVariable();

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

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * The action must be in the scope of the variable.
	 * self.variable.isAccessibleBy(self)
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean validateScopeOfVariable(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map<Object, Object> context);

} // VariableAction