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package org.deegree.io.datastore.sql.wherebuilder;
import org.deegree.io.datastore.schema.MappedPropertyType;
import org.deegree.io.datastore.schema.TableRelation;
/**
* Represents a {@link MappedPropertyType} as a node in a {@link QueryTableTree}.
*
* @author <a href="mailto:schneider@lat-lon.de">Markus Schneider </a>
* @author last edited by: $Author: mschneider $
*
* @version $Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2006/08/28 16:38:59 $
*/
public interface PropertyNode {
/**
* Returns the {@link MappedPropertyType} that this node represents.
*
* @return the MappedPropertyType that this node represents
*/
MappedPropertyType getProperty();
/**
* Returns the parent feature type node.
*
* @return the parent feature type node
*/
FeatureTypeNode getParent();
/**
* Returns the table relations that lead from the parent feature type node's table to the table
* associated with this property.
*
* @return the table relations that lead from the parent feature type node's table
*/
TableRelation[] getPathFromParent();
/**
* Returns the aliases for the target tables in the table relations.
*
* @return the aliases for the target tables
*/
String[] getTableAliases();
/**
* Returns an indented string representation of the object.
*
* @param indent
* current indentation (contains spaces to be prepended)
* @return an indented string representation of the object
*/
String toString( String indent );
}
/* **************************************************************************************************
* Changes to this class. What the people have been up to:
* $Log: PropertyNode.java,v $
* Revision 1.7 2006/08/28 16:38:59 mschneider
* Javadoc fixes.
*
* Revision 1.6 2006/08/24 06:40:05 poth
* File header corrected
*
* Revision 1.5 2006/05/21 19:09:02 poth
* several methods set to public; required by SDE datastore
*
************************************************************************************************* */