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 * Copyright (c) 2006, 2009 IBM Corporation, Zeligsoft Inc., 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
 *   Zeligsoft - Bug 207365
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ocl.expressions;

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

/**
 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
 * A representation of the model object '<em><b>Collection Item</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <p>
 * The following features are supported:
 * </p>
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.ocl.expressions.CollectionItem#getItem <em>Item</em>}</li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.ocl.expressions.ExpressionsPackage#getCollectionItem()
 * @model
 * @generated
 */
public interface CollectionItem<C>
		extends CollectionLiteralPart<C> {

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Item</b></em>' containment reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Item</em>' containment reference isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Item</em>' containment reference.
	 * @see #setItem(OCLExpression)
	 * @see org.eclipse.ocl.expressions.ExpressionsPackage#getCollectionItem_Item()
	 * @model containment="true" required="true"
	 * @generated
	 */
	OCLExpression<C> getItem();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.ocl.expressions.CollectionItem#getItem <em>Item</em>}' containment reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Item</em>' containment reference.
	 * @see #getItem()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setItem(OCLExpression<C> value);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * type = item.type
	 * @param diagnostics The chain of diagnostics to which problems are to be appended.
	 * @param context The cache of context-specific information.
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean checkItemType(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map<Object, Object> context);

} // CollectionItem