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11    @author : Endre Bak, ebak@de.ibm.com
12   * 
13   * Flag       Date        Prog         Description
14   * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
15   * 1565892    2006-10-06  ebak         Make SBLIM client JSR48 compliant
16   * 2003590    2008-06-30  blaschke-oss Change licensing from CPL to EPL
17   * 2524131    2009-01-21  raman_arora  Upgrade client to JDK 1.5 (Phase 1)
18   * 2797550    2009-06-01  raman_arora  JSR48 compliance - add Java Generics
19   * 2935258    2010-01-22  blaschke-oss Sync up javax.cim.* javadoc with JSR48 1.0.0
20   */
21  
22  package org.metricshub.wbem.javax.cim;
23  
24  /*-
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42   */
43  
44  //Sync'd against JSR48 1.0.0 javadoc (build 1.5.0_10) on Wed Jan 20 02:20:59 EST 2010
45  /**
46   * The <code>CIMQualifiedElementInterface</code> is used by CIM Elements that
47   * have qualifiers. For example, CIM Classes, CIM Properties, CIM Methods and
48   * CIM Parameters are all CIM Elements that have qualifiers.
49   */
50  public interface CIMQualifiedElementInterface {
51  	/**
52  	 * Get a qualifier by index.
53  	 *
54  	 * @param pIndex
55  	 *            The index of the qualifier.
56  	 * @return The Qualifier at index <code>pIndex</code>.
57  	 */
58  	public CIMQualifier<?> getQualifier(int pIndex);
59  
60  	/**
61  	 * Gets a qualifier by name.
62  	 *
63  	 * @param pName
64  	 *            The name of the qualifier to get.
65  	 * @return <code>null</code> if the qualifier does not exist, otherwise
66  	 *         returns the reference to the qualifier.
67  	 */
68  	public CIMQualifier<?> getQualifier(String pName);
69  
70  	/**
71  	 * Get the number of qualifiers defined for this CIM Element.
72  	 *
73  	 * @return The number of qualifiers.
74  	 */
75  	public int getQualifierCount();
76  
77  	/**
78  	 * Returns the list of qualifiers for this class.
79  	 *
80  	 * @return Qualifiers for this class.
81  	 */
82  	public CIMQualifier<?>[] getQualifiers();
83  
84  	/**
85  	 * Gets a qualifier value by name.
86  	 *
87  	 * @param pName
88  	 *            The name of the qualifier to get.
89  	 * @return <code>null</code> if the qualifier does not exist or value is
90  	 *         <code>null</code>, otherwise returns the reference to the
91  	 *         qualifier.
92  	 */
93  	public Object getQualifierValue(String pName);
94  
95  	/**
96  	 * Checks whether the specified qualifier is one of the qualifiers in this
97  	 * CIM element.
98  	 *
99  	 * @param pName
100 	 *            The name of the qualifier.
101 	 * @return <code>true</code> if the qualifier exists in this CIM element,
102 	 *         otherwise <code>false</code>.
103 	 */
104 	public boolean hasQualifier(String pName);
105 
106 	/**
107 	 * Checks whether the specified qualifier is one of the qualifiers defined
108 	 * for this property with the specified value. This method will return
109 	 * <code>false</code> if the qualifier is not applied or if the value does
110 	 * not match.
111 	 *
112 	 * @param pName
113 	 *            The name of the qualifier.
114 	 * @param pValue
115 	 *            The value to be tested.
116 	 * @return <code>true</code> if the qualifier exists and has the value,
117 	 *         otherwise <code>false</code>.
118 	 */
119 	public boolean hasQualifierValue(String pName, Object pValue);
120 }