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* Copyright (c) 2006 Oracle Corporation.
* 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:
* Gerry Kessler/Oracle - initial API and implementation
*
********************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jst.jsf.metadataprocessors.features;
import java.util.List;
import org.eclipse.jst.jsf.metadataprocessors.IMetaDataEnabledFeature;
/**
* Interface for providing possible values.
*
* <p><b>Provisional API - subject to change</b></p>
* @author Gerry Kessler - Oracle
*
*/
public interface IPossibleValues extends IMetaDataEnabledFeature{
/**
* Default name of property in annotation file to use when supplying possible values from meta-data
*/
public static final String POSSIBLE_VALUES_PROP_NAME = "valid-values"; //$NON-NLS-1$
/**
* Default name of property in annotation file to use when supplying possible displayed values from meta-data
*/
public static final String POSSIBLE_VALUES_FOR_DISPLAY_PROP_NAME = "displayed-values"; //$NON-NLS-1$
/**
* Default name of property in annotation file to use when supplying icon displayed values from meta-data
*/
public static final String POSSIBLE_VALUES_SMALL_ICON_PROP_NAME = "small-icon"; //$NON-NLS-1$
/**
* @return List of IPossibleValue instances representing possible values
* Implementer must ensure that an empty rather than null list is returned if no values are posssible.
*/
public List getPossibleValues();
}