Schema.java

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 * $URL: https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/citations/trunk/citations-api/api/src/java/org/sakaiproject/citation/api/Schema.java $
 * $Id: Schema.java 105079 2012-02-24 23:08:11Z ottenhoff@longsight.com $
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package org.sakaiproject.citation.api;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

public interface Schema 
{
	public static final String LONGTEXT = "longtext";
	public static final String SHORTTEXT = "shorttext";
	public static final String NUMBER = "number";
	public static final String DATE = "date";
	
	public static final int UNLIMITED = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
	
	public static final String ESCAPE_FIELD_NAME = ":&%~!@#$^*()+=\"'`<>,/? ";
	public static final char ESCAPE_CHAR = '_';
	
	// public static final String AUTHOR = "author";
	public static final String TITLE = "title";
	public static final String EDITOR = "editor";
	public static final String CREATOR = "creator";
	public static final String VOLUME = "volume";
	public static final String ISSUE = "issue";
	public static final String PAGES = "pages";
	public static final String PUBLISHER = "publisher";
	public static final String YEAR = "year";
	public static final String ISN = "isnIdentifier";
	public static final String SOURCE_TITLE = "sourceTitle";
	
	public interface Field
	{
		public String getNamespaceAbbreviation();
		public String getIdentifier();
		public String getIdentifier(String format);
		public String[] getIdentifierComplex(String format);		
		public String getDescription();
		public String getValueType();
		public boolean isEditable();
		public boolean isRequired();
		public int getMinCardinality();
		public int getMaxCardinality();
		public Object getDefaultValue();
		public String getLabel();
		public boolean isMultivalued();
		
	}
	
	public String getNamespaceAbbrev();
	
	public String getNamespaceUri(String abbrev);
	
	public String getIdentifier();
	
	public List getNamespaceAbbreviations();
	
	public List getFields();
	
	public List getRequiredFields();
	
	public Field getField(String name);
	
	public Field getField(int index);

}