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 * Copyright (c) 2010, 2015 Willink Transformations 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:
 *   E.D.Willink - Initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ocl.pivot;

import java.util.Map;
import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.DiagnosticChain;


/**
 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
 * A representation of the model object '<em><b>Variable Exp</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <p>
 * The following features are supported:
 * </p>
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.VariableExp#isIsImplicit <em>Is Implicit</em>}</li>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.VariableExp#getReferredVariable <em>Referred Variable</em>}</li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.PivotPackage#getVariableExp()
 * @generated
 */
public interface VariableExp
		extends OCLExpression, ReferringElement {

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Is Implicit</b></em>' attribute.
	 * The default value is <code>"false"</code>.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Is Implicit</em>' attribute isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Is Implicit</em>' attribute.
	 * @see #setIsImplicit(boolean)
	 * @see org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.PivotPackage#getVariableExp_IsImplicit()
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean isIsImplicit();

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Referred Variable</b></em>' reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Referred Variable</em>' reference isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Referred Variable</em>' reference.
	 * @see #setReferredVariable(VariableDeclaration)
	 * @see org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.PivotPackage#getVariableExp_ReferredVariable()
	 * @generated
	 */
	VariableDeclaration getReferredVariable();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.VariableExp#getReferredVariable <em>Referred Variable</em>}' reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Referred Variable</em>' reference.
	 * @see #getReferredVariable()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setReferredVariable(VariableDeclaration value);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean validateTypeIsNotInvalid(DiagnosticChain diagnostics, Map<Object, Object> context);

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.VariableExp#isIsImplicit <em>Is Implicit</em>}' attribute.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Is Implicit</em>' attribute.
	 * @see #isIsImplicit()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setIsImplicit(boolean value);

} // VariableExp