001 /* Attribute.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2001, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039 package javax.naming.directory; 040 041 import java.io.Serializable; 042 043 import javax.naming.NamingEnumeration; 044 import javax.naming.NamingException; 045 046 /** 047 * @author Warren Levy (warrenl@redhat.com) 048 * @date June 14, 2001 049 */ 050 public interface Attribute extends Cloneable, Serializable 051 { 052 long serialVersionUID = 8707690322213556804L; 053 054 NamingEnumeration<?> getAll() throws NamingException; 055 Object get() throws NamingException; 056 int size(); 057 String getID(); 058 boolean contains(Object attrVal); 059 boolean add(Object attrVal); 060 boolean remove(Object attrval); 061 void clear(); 062 DirContext getAttributeSyntaxDefinition() throws NamingException; 063 DirContext getAttributeDefinition() throws NamingException; 064 Object clone(); 065 boolean isOrdered(); 066 Object get(int ix) throws NamingException; 067 Object remove(int ix); 068 void add(int ix, Object attrVal); 069 Object set(int ix, Object attrVal); 070 }