1 /* 2 * ModeShape (http://www.modeshape.org) 3 * See the COPYRIGHT.txt file distributed with this work for information 4 * regarding copyright ownership. Some portions may be licensed 5 * to Red Hat, Inc. under one or more contributor license agreements. 6 * See the AUTHORS.txt file in the distribution for a full listing of 7 * individual contributors. 8 * 9 * ModeShape is free software. Unless otherwise indicated, all code in ModeShape 10 * is licensed to you under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 11 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of 12 * the License, or (at your option) any later version. 13 * 14 * ModeShape is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 15 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 16 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 17 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 18 * 19 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 20 * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free 21 * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 22 * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. 23 */ 24 package org.modeshape.graph.property; 25 26 import java.util.Iterator; 27 import net.jcip.annotations.ThreadSafe; 28 29 /** 30 * A factory for creating {@link Property} objects. 31 */ 32 @ThreadSafe 33 public interface PropertyFactory { 34 /** 35 * Create a property with the supplied name and values 36 * 37 * @param name the property name; may not be null 38 * @param values the values 39 * @return the resulting property 40 */ 41 Property create( Name name, 42 Object... values ); 43 44 /** 45 * Create a property with the supplied name and values 46 * 47 * @param name the property name; may not be null 48 * @param values the values 49 * @return the resulting property 50 */ 51 Property create( Name name, 52 Iterable<?> values ); 53 54 /** 55 * Create a property with the supplied name and values 56 * 57 * @param name the property name; may not be null 58 * @param values the values 59 * @return the resulting property 60 */ 61 Property create( Name name, 62 Iterator<?> values ); 63 64 /** 65 * Create a property with the supplied name and values 66 * 67 * @param name the property name; may not be null 68 * @param desiredType the type that the objects should be converted to; if null, they will be used as is 69 * @param values the values 70 * @return the resulting property 71 */ 72 Property create( Name name, 73 PropertyType desiredType, 74 Object... values ); 75 76 /** 77 * Create a property with the supplied name and values 78 * 79 * @param name the property name; may not be null 80 * @param desiredType the type that the objects should be converted to; if null, they will be used as is 81 * @param values the values 82 * @return the resulting property 83 */ 84 Property create( Name name, 85 PropertyType desiredType, 86 Iterable<?> values ); 87 88 /** 89 * Create a property with the supplied name and values 90 * 91 * @param name the property name; may not be null 92 * @param desiredType the type that the objects should be converted to; if null, they will be used as is 93 * @param values the values 94 * @return the resulting property 95 */ 96 Property create( Name name, 97 PropertyType desiredType, 98 Iterator<?> values ); 99 100 }