software.amazon.ion.IonText Maven / Gradle / Ivy
Show all versions of ion-java Show documentation
/*
* Copyright 2007-2016 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
* You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* A copy of the License is located at:
*
* http://aws.amazon.com/apache2.0/
*
* or in the "license" file accompanying this file. This file is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific
* language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
*/
package software.amazon.ion;
/**
* Common functionality of Ion string and symbol
* types.
*
* WARNING: This interface should not be implemented or extended by
* code outside of this library.
*/
public interface IonText
extends IonValue
{
/**
* Gets the characters of this text value.
*
* @return the text of this Ion value, or null if
* this.isNullValue().
*
* @throws UnknownSymbolException if this is a symbol with unknown text.
*
* @see IonSymbol#symbolValue()
*/
public String stringValue();
/**
* Changes the content.
*
* @param value the new value of this text value;
* may be null to make this an Ion null value.
*
*/
public void setValue(String value);
public IonText clone()
throws UnknownSymbolException;
}