/**
* Copyright (c) 2002-2010 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
*/
package org.eclipse.emf.ecore;
/**
* <!-- begin-user-doc -->
* A representation of the model object '<em><b>EFactory</b></em>'.
* <p>
* A factory is responsible for {@link #create creating} class instances,
* and for converting data type instances {@link #convertToString to} and {@link #createFromString from} <code>String</code>.
* <p>
* <!-- end-user-doc -->
*
* <p>
* The following features are supported:
* </p>
* <ul>
* <li>{@link org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EFactory#getEPackage <em>EPackage</em>}</li>
* </ul>
*
* @see org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EcorePackage#getEFactory()
* @model
* @generated
*/
public interface EFactory extends EModelElement
{
/**
* Returns the value of the '<em><b>EPackage</b></em>' reference.
* It is bidirectional and its opposite is '{@link org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EPackage#getEFactoryInstance <em>EFactory Instance</em>}'.
* <!-- begin-user-doc -->
* <p>
* It represent the package of this factory.
* </p>
* <!-- end-user-doc -->
* @return the value of the '<em>EPackage</em>' reference.
* @see #setEPackage(EPackage)
* @see org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EcorePackage#getEFactory_EPackage()
* @see org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EPackage#getEFactoryInstance
* @model opposite="eFactoryInstance" resolveProxies="false" required="true" transient="true"
* @generated
*/
EPackage getEPackage();
/**
* Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EFactory#getEPackage <em>EPackage</em>}' reference.
* <!-- begin-user-doc -->
* <!-- end-user-doc -->
* @param value the new value of the '<em>EPackage</em>' reference.
* @see #getEPackage()
* @generated
*/
void setEPackage(EPackage value);
/**
* <!-- begin-user-doc -->
* Creates a new instance of the class and returns it.
* @param eClass the class of the new instance.
* @return a new instance of the class.
* <!-- end-user-doc -->
* @model
* @generated
*/
EObject create(EClass eClass);
/**
* <!-- begin-user-doc -->
* Creates an instance of the data type from the literal value.
* @param literalValue literal value of the instance.
* @return an instance of the data type.
* @see #convertToString(EDataType, Object)
* @ignore
* <!-- end-user-doc -->
* @model
* @generated
*/
Object createFromString(EDataType eDataType, String literalValue);
/**
* <!-- begin-user-doc -->
* Returns the literal value of the instance.
* @param eDataType the data type of the value.
* @param instanceValue the value.
* @return the literal value of the instance.
* @see #createFromString(EDataType, String)
* @ignore
* <!-- end-user-doc -->
* @model
* @generated
*/
String convertToString(EDataType eDataType, Object instanceValue);
}