// $Id: ActivityGraphsFactory.java 122 2010-09-24 00:46:37Z marcusvnac $
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package org.argouml.model;
import java.util.Collection;
/**
* The interface for the factory for ActivityGraphs.
*/
public interface ActivityGraphsFactory extends Factory {
/**
* Create an empty but initialized instance of a UML ActionState.
*
* @return an initialized UML ActionState instance.
*/
Object createActionState();
/**
* Create an empty but initialized instance of a UML ActivityGraph.
*
* @return an initialized UML ActivityGraph instance.
*/
Object createActivityGraph();
/**
* Create an empty but initialized instance of a UML CallState.
*
* @return an initialized UML CallState instance.
*/
Object createCallState();
/**
* Create an empty but initialized instance of a UML ClassifierInState.
*
* @return an initialized UML ClassifierInState instance.
*/
Object createClassifierInState();
/**
* Create an empty but initialized instance of a UML ObjectFlowState.
*
* @return an initialized UML ObjectFlowState instance.
*/
Object createObjectFlowState();
/**
* Create an empty but initialized instance of a UML Partition.
*
* @return an initialized UML Partition instance.
*/
Object createPartition();
/**
* Create an empty but initialized instance of a UML SubactivityState.
*
* @return an initialized UML SubactivityState instance.
*/
Object createSubactivityState();
/**
* Builds an activity graph owned by the given context.<p>
*
* @param theContext is a ModelElement that will own the graph.
* @return the new ActivityGraph as Object
*/
Object buildActivityGraph(Object theContext);
/**
* Builds an ObjectFlowState. The ObjectFlowState will be a subvertex of
* the given compositestate. The parameter compositeState is of
* type Object to decouple the factory and model implementation as much as
* possible from the rest of ArgoUML.
*
* @author MVW
* @param compositeState the given compositestate
* @return Object the newly build objectflow state.
*/
Object buildObjectFlowState(Object compositeState);
/**
* Builds a ClassifierInState. Links it to the 2 required objects:
* the classifier that forms the type of this classifierInState,
* and a collection of one or more states.
*
* @param classifier the classifier (type)
* @param state the collection of states (inState)
* @return the newly build classifierInState
*/
Object buildClassifierInState(Object classifier, Collection state);
}