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package de.hilling.lang.metamodel;

/**
 * Description for a read-only attribute of a bean-style class.
 * @param  Declaring class of the attribute.
 * @param  Type of the attribute.
 */
public interface Attribute {
    /**
     * Return the name of the attribute.
     *
     * @return name
     */
    String getName();

    /**
     * Return the managed type representing the type in which
     * the attribute was declared.
     *
     * @return declaring type
     */
    Class getDeclaringType();

    /**
     * Return the Java type of the represented attribute.
     *
     * @return Java type
     */
    Class getJavaType();

    /**
     * Retrieve the attribute value from declaring object.
     *
     * @param object the object.
     *
     * @return value of the attribute in given object.
     */
    A readAttribute(T object);
}