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* Copyright 2003-2010 Tufts University Licensed under the
* Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
* not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
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*
* http://www.osedu.org/licenses/ECL-2.0
*
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* software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
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package edu.tufts.vue.dsm;
/**
This interface is simply an attribute holder with many accessors. How these
attributes are managed internally is obvious hidden.
*/
public interface DataSource
{
public org.osid.repository.Repository getRepository();
public void setProviderId(org.osid.shared.Id providerId);
public org.osid.shared.Id getProviderId();
public org.osid.shared.Id getId();
public boolean hasUpdate();
public String getOsidName();
public String getOsidVersion();
public String getOsidLoadKey();
public void setOsidLoadKey(String osidLoadKey);
public String getProviderDisplayName();
public String getProviderDescription();
public String getCreator();
public String getPublisher();
public java.util.Date getReleaseDate();
public String getLicense();
public boolean requestsLicenseAcknowledgement();
public org.osid.shared.Id getRepositoryId();
public org.osid.shared.Type getRepositoryType();
public String getRepositoryDisplayName();
public String getRepositoryDescription();
public boolean isOnline();
public boolean isIncludedInSearch();
public void setIncludedInSearch(boolean isIncluded);
public boolean supportsUpdate();
public org.osid.shared.TypeIterator getAssetTypes();
public org.osid.shared.TypeIterator getSearchTypes();
public boolean hasConfiguration();
public java.awt.Image getIcon16x16();
public String getConfigurationUIHints();
public void setConfiguration(java.util.Properties properties)
throws org.osid.repository.RepositoryException;
public java.util.Properties getConfiguration();
public boolean supportsSearch();
}