commonj.sdo.helper.HelperContext Maven / Gradle / Ivy

Go to download

Show more of this group Show more artifacts with this name
Show all versions of plasma-common Show documentation

The Plasma Common Module

There is a newer version: 2.2.1

/**
 * 
 *
 * Service Data Objects
 * Version 2.1.0
 * Licensed Materials
 *
 * (c) Copyright BEA Systems, Inc., International Business Machines Corporation, 
 * Oracle Corporation, Primeton Technologies Ltd., Rogue Wave Software, SAP AG., 
 * Software AG., Sun Microsystems, Sybase Inc., Xcalia, Zend Technologies, 
 * 2005, 2006. All rights reserved.
 *
 * 
 * 
 */

package commonj.sdo.helper;

/**
 * This interface represents a helper execution context. The set of helpers
 * returned by the methods in this interface have visibility to the same SDO
 * metadata, that is, they execute in the same "scope".
 */
public interface HelperContext {
  /**
   * Gets the CopyHelper to use in this context.
   * 
   * @return a CopyHelper object
   */
  CopyHelper getCopyHelper();

  /**
   * Gets the DataFactory to use in this context.
   * 
   * @return a DataFactory object
   */
  DataFactory getDataFactory();

  /**
   * Gets the DataHelper to use in this context.
   * 
   * @return a DataHelper object
   */
  DataHelper getDataHelper();

  /**
   * Gets the EqualityHelper to use in this context.
   * 
   * @return an EqualityHelper object
   */
  EqualityHelper getEqualityHelper();

  /**
   * Gets the TypeHelper to use in this context.
   * 
   * @return a TypeHelper object
   */
  TypeHelper getTypeHelper();

  /**
   * Gets the XMLHelper to use in this context.
   * 
   * @return an XMLHelper object
   */
  XMLHelper getXMLHelper();

  /**
   * Gets the XSDHelper to use in this context.
   * 
   * @return an XSDHelper object
   */
  XSDHelper getXSDHelper();
}