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/*
 * ====================================================================
 * Project:     openMDX, http://www.openmdx.org/
 * Description: Configuration
 * Owner:       OMEX AG, Switzerland, http://www.omex.ch
 * ====================================================================
 *
 * This software is published under the BSD license as listed below.
 * 
 * Copyright (c) 2014, OMEX AG, Switzerland
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 */
package org.openmdx.kernel.configuration;

import java.util.Set;

import org.w3c.cci2.SparseArray;

/**
 * The configuration interface
 */
public interface Configuration {

	/**
	 * Provide the entry names of the single-valued entries
	 *
	 * @return the single-valued entry entry name set
	 */
	Set singleValuedEntryNames();

	/**
	 * Provide the entry names of the multi-valued entries
	 *
	 * @return the multi-valued entry entry name set
	 */
	Set multiValuedEntryNames();
	
    /**
     * Tells whether a given flag is enabled or not
     * 
     * @param entryName the configuration entry's name
     * @param defaultValue the default in case the value is neither 
     * true nor false
     * 
     * @return the flag value
     */
    boolean isEnabled(
		String entryName,
		boolean defaultValue
	);
    
    /**
     * Retrieve a single-value configuration entry
     * 
     * @param entryName the configuration entry's name
     * @param defaultValue the default in case the entry is absent
     * 
     * @return the entry's value if it is present, the default value otherwise
     */
     T getValue(
    	String entryName,
    	T defaultValue
    );
    
    /**
     * Retrieve a single-value configuration entry
     * @param entryName the configuration entry's name
     * @param type the component type is used to parse or cast the value
     * 
     * @return the entry's value if it is present, null otherwise
     */
     T getOptionalValue(
    	String entryName,
    	Class type
    );

    /**
     * Retrieve a multi-value configuration entry
     * @param entryName the configuration entry's name
     * @param elementType the element type is used to parse or cast the single values
     * 
     * @return the entry's values if present, an empty sparse array otherwise
     */
     SparseArray getValues(
    	String entryName,
    	Class elementType
    );
    
}




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