ManagedProperty.java

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package org.apache.myfaces.config.element;

import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.el.ValueBinding;

import org.apache.myfaces.config.element.ListEntries;


/**
 * @author Manfred Geiler (latest modification by $Author$)
 * @author Anton Koinov

 * @version $Revision$ $Date$
 */
public interface ManagedProperty
{
    // <!ELEMENT managed-property (description*, display-name*, icon*, property-name, property-class?, (map-entries|null-value|value|list-entries))>

    public static final int TYPE_UNKNOWN = 0;
    public static final int TYPE_MAP = 1;
    public static final int TYPE_NULL = 2;
    public static final int TYPE_VALUE = 3;
    public static final int TYPE_LIST = 4;

    public String getPropertyName();
    public String getPropertyClass();

    public int getType();
    public MapEntries getMapEntries();
    public ListEntries getListEntries();
    public Object getRuntimeValue(FacesContext facesContext);
    public boolean isValueReference();
    public ValueBinding getValueBinding(FacesContext facesContext);
}