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package com.mysql.cj.conf;

import com.mysql.cj.exceptions.ExceptionInterceptor;

public interface PropertyDefinition<T> {

    /**
     * Does the property have fixed values based constraints.
     * 
     * @return true if property has fixed values based constraints.
     */
    boolean hasValueConstraints();

    /**
     * Returns true if property has range-based constraints
     * 
     * @return true if property has range-based constraints
     */
    boolean isRangeBased();

    /**
     * Get the property key.
     * 
     * @return {@link PropertyKey} or null if it's a custom property.
     */
    PropertyKey getPropertyKey();

    /**
     * Returns the property name.
     * 
     * @return the property name
     */
    String getName();

    /**
     * Returns the property camel-case alias.
     * 
     * @return the property camel-case alias.
     */
    String getCcAlias();

    /**
     * Returns true if property has a camel-case alias.
     * 
     * @return true if property has a camel-case alias.
     */
    boolean hasCcAlias();

    /**
     * Returns the default value.
     * 
     * @return default value
     */
    T getDefaultValue();

    /**
     * May the property be changed after initialization.
     * 
     * @return true if the property value may be changed after initialization.
     */
    boolean isRuntimeModifiable();

    /**
     * Returns the property description. Used for documentation.
     * 
     * @return property description
     */
    String getDescription();

    /**
     * Returns the driver version where the property was introduced first. Used for documentation.
     * 
     * @return the driver version where the property was introduced first
     */
    String getSinceVersion();

    /**
     * Returns the property category.
     * 
     * @return property category
     */
    String getCategory();

    /**
     * Returns the property order. Used as preferred property position in properties table in documentation.
     * 
     * @return property order
     */
    int getOrder();

    /**
     * Returns the list of allowable values.
     * 
     * @return the list of allowable values
     */
    String[] getAllowableValues();

    /**
     * The lowest possible value of range-based property
     * 
     * @return the lowest possible value of range-based property
     */
    int getLowerBound();

    /**
     * The highest possible value of range-based property
     * 
     * @return the highest possible value of range-based property
     */
    int getUpperBound();

    /**
     * Returns the value object parsed from it's string representation and checked against allowable values.
     * 
     * @param value
     *            value
     * @param exceptionInterceptor
     *            exception interceptor
     * 
     * @return the value object
     */
    T parseObject(String value, ExceptionInterceptor exceptionInterceptor);

    /**
     * Creates instance of ReadableProperty or ModifiableProperty depending on isRuntimeModifiable() result.
     * 
     * @return {@link RuntimeProperty} instance
     */
    RuntimeProperty<T> createRuntimeProperty();

}
