Type.java

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package org.teiid.designer.schema.tools.model.schema;

import org.eclipse.xsd.XSDSimpleTypeDefinition;

/**
 * @since 8.0
 */
public interface Type {
	/**
	 * Returns the type as a namespace prefix qualified string; 
	 * i.e. xsd:string, xsd:int, etc 
	 * @return - the type 
	 */
	public String getBaseType(); 

	/**
	 * Returns the qualified name of the actual declared type.
	 * @return - the name of the type.
	 */
	public QName getTypeName(); 

	/**
	 * Returns the XSDSimpleTypeDefinition representing the actual declared type
	 * @return - the XSDSimpleTypeDefinition
	 */
	public XSDSimpleTypeDefinition getType(); 
}