/**
 *    '$RCSfile: Domain.java,v $'
 *
 *     '$Author: costa $'
 *       '$Date: 2006-10-31 21:00:40 $'
 *   '$Revision: 1.2 $'
 *
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 *
 * Copyright (c) 2003 The Regents of the University of California.
 * All rights reserved.
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 */

package org.ecoinformatics.datamanager.parser;


/**
 * This object represents an Attribute Domain, a set of restrictions
 * on legal values that the attribute can contain.
 * 
 * @author tao
 */
public interface Domain
{
  /*
   * Class fields
   */
  public static final int DOM_NONE = 0;
  public static final int DOM_NUMBERTYPE = 1;
  public static final int DOM_BOUNDED = 2;
  public static final int DOM_ENUMERATED = 3;
  public static final int DOM_ENUMENTITY = 4;
  public static final int DOM_TEXT = 5;
  public static final int DOM_DATETIME = 6;
  public static final int DOM_REFERENCE = 7;

  public static final String typeStrings[] = {
    "None",
    "NumberType",
    "Bounded",
    "Enumerated",
    "EnumEntity",
    "Text",
    "DateTime",
    "Reference"
  };
  
  
  /*
   * Instance methods
   */
  
  /**
   * Method to get DataType
   * @return
   */
  //public DataType getDataType();

}