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package org.opends.guitools.controlpanel.datamodel;

import org.opends.messages.Message;

/**
 * An interface defining the different methods required by the UI components
 * to display monitoring attributes data.
 *
 */
public interface MonitoringAttributes
{
  /**
   * Returns the message associated with the attribute (basically is the
   * localized name of the operation associated with the attribute).
   * @return the message associated with the attribute.
   */
  public Message getMessage();

  /**
   * Returns the name of the attribute.
   * @return the name of the attribute.
   */
  public String getAttributeName();

  /**
   * Tells whether this is the number of aborted operations.
   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if this corresponds to the number of aborted
   * operations and <CODE>false</CODE> otherwise.
   */
  public boolean isAborted();

  /**
   * Return whether this attribute contains a numeric value or not.
   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value is numeric and <CODE>false</CODE>
   * otherwise.
   */
  public boolean isNumeric();

  /**
   * Return whether this attribute contains a time value or not.
   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value is a time and <CODE>false</CODE>
   * otherwise.
   */
  public boolean isTime();

  /**
   * Return whether this attribute contains a numeric date value or not.
   * The date is a long value in miliseconds.
   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value is date and <CODE>false</CODE>
   * otherwise.
   */
  public boolean isNumericDate();

  /**
   * Return whether this attribute contains a GMT date value or not.  The date
   * has a format of type ServerConstants.DATE_FORMAT_GMT_TIME.
   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value is a GMT date and <CODE>false</CODE>
   * otherwise.
   */
  public boolean isGMTDate();

  /**
   * Return whether this attribute represents a value in bytes or not.
   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value represents a value in bytes and
   * <CODE>false</CODE> otherwise.
   */
  public boolean isValueInBytes();

  /**
   * Returns <CODE>true</CODE> if the average for this attribute makes sense
   * and <CODE>false</CODE> otherwise.
   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the average for this attribute makes sense
   * and <CODE>false</CODE> otherwise.
   */
  public boolean canHaveAverage();
}