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package org.opends.guitools.controlpanel.datamodel;
import org.forgerock.i18n.LocalizableMessage;
/**
* An interface defining the different methods required by the UI components
* to display monitoring attributes data.
*
*/
public interface MonitoringAttributes
{
/**
* Returns the message associated with the attribute (basically is the
* localized name of the operation associated with the attribute).
* @return the message associated with the attribute.
*/
LocalizableMessage getMessage();
/**
* Returns the name of the attribute.
* @return the name of the attribute.
*/
String getAttributeName();
/**
* Tells whether this is the number of aborted operations.
* @return <CODE>true</CODE> if this corresponds to the number of aborted
* operations and <CODE>false</CODE> otherwise.
*/
boolean isAborted();
/**
* Return whether this attribute contains a numeric value or not.
* @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value is numeric and <CODE>false</CODE>
* otherwise.
*/
boolean isNumeric();
/**
* Return whether this attribute contains a time value or not.
* @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value is a time and <CODE>false</CODE>
* otherwise.
*/
boolean isTime();
/**
* Return whether this attribute contains a numeric date value or not.
* The date is a long value in milliseconds.
* @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value is date and <CODE>false</CODE>
* otherwise.
*/
boolean isNumericDate();
/**
* Return whether this attribute contains a GMT date value or not. The date
* has a format of type ServerConstants.DATE_FORMAT_GMT_TIME.
* @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value is a GMT date and <CODE>false</CODE>
* otherwise.
*/
boolean isGMTDate();
/**
* Return whether this attribute represents a value in bytes or not.
* @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value represents a value in bytes and
* <CODE>false</CODE> otherwise.
*/
boolean isValueInBytes();
/**
* Returns <CODE>true</CODE> if the average for this attribute makes sense
* and <CODE>false</CODE> otherwise.
* @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the average for this attribute makes sense
* and <CODE>false</CODE> otherwise.
*/
boolean canHaveAverage();
}