IPatternMatcherStringTypedContext.java

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2004-2009 Gabor Bergmann and Daniel Varro
 * 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
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *    Gabor Bergmann - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.incquery.runtime.rete.matcher;

import org.eclipse.incquery.runtime.rete.construction.RetePatternBuildException;

/**
 * 
 * @author Bergmann Gábor
 * 
 */
public interface IPatternMatcherStringTypedContext<PatternDescription> extends
        IPatternMatcherContext<PatternDescription> {

    // String retrieveUnaryTypeFQN(Object typeObject);
    // String retrieveTernaryEdgeTypeFQN(Object typeObject);
    // String retrieveBinaryEdgeTypeFQN(Object typeObject);

    Object resolveConstant(String fullyQualifiedName) throws RetePatternBuildException; // Type? Instance? Entity?
                                                                                        // Relation? Who knows?

    Object retrieveBinaryEdgeType(String fullyQualifiedName) throws RetePatternBuildException;

    Object retrieveTernaryEdgeType(String fullyQualifiedName) throws RetePatternBuildException;

    Object retrieveUnaryType(String fullyQualifiedName) throws RetePatternBuildException;

}