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/*****************************************************************************
 * Source code information
 * -----------------------
 * Original author    Ian Dickinson, HP Labs Bristol
 * Author email       [email protected]
 * Package            Jena 2
 * Web                http://sourceforge.net/projects/jena/
 * Created            07-May-2003
 * Filename           $RCSfile: AllValuesFromRestriction.java,v $
 * Revision           $Revision: 1.2 $
 * Release status     $State: Exp $
 *
 * Last modified on   $Date: 2009/10/06 13:04:34 $
 *               by   $Author: ian_dickinson $
 *
 * (c) Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
 * (see footer for full conditions)
 *****************************************************************************/

// Package
///////////////
package com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology;


// Imports
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import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Resource;


/**
 * 
 * A property restriction that requires the named property to have have any range
 * instances to be members of a given class.
 * 
 *
 * @author Ian Dickinson, HP Labs
 *         (email)
 * @version CVS $Id: AllValuesFromRestriction.java,v 1.2 2009/10/06 13:04:34 ian_dickinson Exp $
 */
public interface AllValuesFromRestriction
    extends Restriction 
{
    // Constants
    //////////////////////////////////


    // External signature methods
    //////////////////////////////////


    // allValuesFrom
    
    /**
     * Assert that this restriction restricts the property to have all values
     * be members of the given class. Any existing statements for allValuesFrom
     * will be removed.
     * @param cls The class that all values of the property must belong to
     * @exception OntProfileException If the {@link Profile#ALL_VALUES_FROM()} property is not supported in the current language profile.   
     */ 
    public void setAllValuesFrom( Resource cls );

    /**
     * Answer the resource characterising the constraint on all values of the restricted property. This may be
     * a class, the URI of a concrete datatype, a DataRange object or the URI rdfs:Literal.
     * @return A resource, which will have been pre-converted to the appropriate Java value type
     *        ({@link OntClass} or {@link DataRange}) if appropriate.
     * @exception OntProfileException If the {@link Profile#ALL_VALUES_FROM()} property is not supported in the current language profile.   
     */ 
    public Resource getAllValuesFrom();

    /**
     * Answer true if this property restriction has the given class as the class to which all 
     * values of the restricted property must belong.
     * @param cls A class to test 
     * @return True if the given class is the class to which all values must belong
     * @exception OntProfileException If the {@link Profile#ALL_VALUES_FROM()} property is not supported in the current language profile.   
     */
    public boolean hasAllValuesFrom( Resource cls );
    
    /**
     * Remove the statement that this restriction has all values from the given class among
     * the values for the restricted property.  If this statement
     * is not true of the current model, nothing happens.
     * @param cls A Resource the denotes the class to be removed from this restriction
     */
    public void removeAllValuesFrom( Resource cls );
    

}


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