/*
* Copyright 2013 Guidewire Software, Inc.
*/
package gw.lang.reflect;
public interface IFeatureInfo
{
/**
* Get this feature's containing feature. May be null.
*/
public IFeatureInfo getContainer();
/**
* Get this feature's owner's type. If this feature has no owner, this is the
* type of the feature itself. Typically, the only kind of feature w/o an
* owner is an ITypeInfo, so properties, methods, params, etc. s/b considered
* owned. Hence, ultimately an ITypeInfo's type will be the owner's type for
* any given feature.
*/
public IType getOwnersType();
/**
* Gets the programmatic name or identifier of this feature. Note this name
* should follow Java identifier naming conventions (alpha-num and
* underscores, but can't start with a digit).
*/
public String getName();
/**
* Gets the display name of this feature. There is no guarantee this display
* name is localized.
*/
public String getDisplayName();
/**
* A full description of this feature.
*/
public String getDescription();
}