/**
* Copyright (c) 2014-2017 by the respective copyright holders.
* 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
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*/
package org.eclipse.smarthome.core.persistence;
import java.util.Date;
import org.eclipse.smarthome.core.items.Item;
import org.eclipse.smarthome.core.types.State;
/**
* This interface is used by persistence services to represent an item
* with a certain state at a given point in time.
*
* <p>
* Note that this interface does not extend {@link Item} as the persistence services could not provide an implementation
* that correctly implement getAcceptedXTypes() and getGroupNames().
* </p>
*
* @author Kai Kreuzer - Initial contribution and API
*/
public interface HistoricItem {
/**
* returns the timestamp of the persisted item
*
* @return the timestamp of the item
*/
Date getTimestamp();
/**
* returns the current state of the item
*
* @return the current state
*/
State getState();
/**
* returns the name of the item
*
* @return the name of the item
*/
String getName();
}