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 net.jcip.annotations.ThreadSafe; 27 import org.modeshape.common.text.TextDecoder; 28 29 /** 30 * A factory for creating {@link Name names}. 31 */ 32 @ThreadSafe 33 public interface NameFactory extends ValueFactory<Name> { 34 35 /** 36 * Create a name from the given namespace URI and local name. 37 * <p> 38 * This method is equivalent to calling {@link #create(String, String, TextDecoder)} with a null encoder. 39 * </p> 40 * 41 * @param namespaceUri the namespace URI 42 * @param localName the local name 43 * @return the new name 44 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the local name is <code>null</code> or empty 45 */ 46 Name create( String namespaceUri, 47 String localName ); 48 49 /** 50 * Create a name from the given namespace URI and local name. 51 * 52 * @param namespaceUri the namespace URI 53 * @param localName the local name 54 * @param decoder the decoder that should be used to decode the qualified name 55 * @return the new name 56 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the local name is <code>null</code> or empty 57 */ 58 Name create( String namespaceUri, 59 String localName, 60 TextDecoder decoder ); 61 62 /** 63 * Get the namespace registry. 64 * 65 * @return the namespace registry; never <code>null</code> 66 */ 67 NamespaceRegistry getNamespaceRegistry(); 68 }