/*
* Copyright (c) 2014 Data Harmonisation Panel
*
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* available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License,
* or (at your option) any later version.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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*
* Contributors:
* Data Harmonisation Panel <http://www.dhpanel.eu>
*/
package eu.esdihumboldt.hale.common.schema.model.constraint.factory;
import eu.esdihumboldt.hale.common.core.io.Value;
import eu.esdihumboldt.hale.common.schema.model.Definition;
/**
* Creates a {@link Value} representation from a constraint and vice versa.
* Implementations must have a default constructor and may not hold any state.
*
* @author Simon Templer
* @param <T> the constraint type
*/
public interface ValueConstraintFactory<T> {
/**
* Create a representation as {@link Value} of the given constraint.
*
* @param constraint the constraint to store as {@link Value}
* @param refBuilder the reference builder that creates references for type
* definitions that may be resolved
* @return the {@link Value} representation, may be <code>null</code>
* @throws Exception if the conversion to a value fails
*/
public Value store(T constraint, TypeReferenceBuilder refBuilder) throws Exception;
/**
* Restore a constraint from its {@link Value} representation.
*
* @param value the {@link Value} to recreate the constraint from
* @param definition the definition the constraint will be associated to
* @param typeResolver the type index that allows resolving references to
* type definitions
* @param classResolver the resolver for reconstructing classes
* @return the restored constraint
* @throws Exception if the creation of the constraint fails
*/
public T restore(Value value, Definition<?> definition, TypeResolver typeResolver,
ClassResolver classResolver) throws Exception;
}