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package org.semanticweb.owlapi.model;
import java.util.Set;
import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
/**
* Annotations are used in the various types of annotation axioms, which bind
* annotations to their subjects (i.e. axioms or declarations).
* An annotation is equal to another annotation if both objects have equal
* annotation URIs and have equal annotation values.
*
* @author Matthew Horridge, The University Of Manchester, Bio-Health
* Informatics Group
* @since 2.0.0
*/
public interface OWLAnnotation extends OWLObject, HasAnnotations,
HasProperty {
/**
* Gets the property that this annotation acts along
*
* @return The annotation property
*/
@Nonnull
@Override
OWLAnnotationProperty getProperty();
/**
* Gets the annotation value. The type of value will depend upon the type of
* the annotation e.g. whether the annotation is an
* {@link org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLLiteral}, an
* {@link org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.IRI} or an
* {@link org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLAnonymousIndividual}.
*
* @see org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLAnnotationValueVisitor
* @see org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLAnnotationValueVisitorEx
* @return The annotation value.
*/
@Nonnull
OWLAnnotationValue getValue();
/**
* Determines if this annotation is an annotation used to deprecate an IRI.
* This is the case if the annotation property has an IRI of
* {@code owl:deprecated} and the value of the annotation is
* {@code "true"^^xsd:boolean}
*
* @return {@code true} if this annotation is an annotation that can be used
* to deprecate an IRI, otherwise {@code false}.
*/
boolean isDeprecatedIRIAnnotation();
/**
* Gets the annotations on this annotation
*
* @return A (possibly empty) set of annotations that annotate this
* annotation
*/
@Nonnull
@Override
Set getAnnotations();
/**
* Gets an OWLAnnotation which is a copy of this annotation but which has
* the specified annotations.
*
* @param annotations
* The annotations
* @return A copy of this annotation with the specified annotations
* annotating it
*/
@Nonnull
OWLAnnotation
getAnnotatedAnnotation(@Nonnull Set annotations);
/**
* @param visitor
* visitor to accept
*/
void accept(@Nonnull OWLAnnotationObjectVisitor visitor);
/**
* @param visitor
* visitor to accept
* @param
* visitor return type
* @return visitor value
*/
@Nonnull
O accept(@Nonnull OWLAnnotationObjectVisitorEx visitor);
}