com.togethersoft.openapi.model.elements
Interface Element

All Known Subinterfaces:

Entity, Model, ReferenceCollection

public interface Element

extends PropertyMap

This interface represents a basic element of the model. The main
characteristics of the elements are:

• Unique name (unique inside one model)
  
• Ability to form backward-traversable tree (although forward traversal,
  i.e. ability to have child elements is supported not for all elements)
  
• Ability to be cut and copied to the clipboard
  
• Ability to participate in links and to be referenced from reference
  collections
  

IMPORTANT IMPLEMENTATION ISSUE: implementation of the model interfaces
in Together core is not thread safe. Access to all methods of this
interface implementation should be performed in command thread

Author:

TogetherSoft

Method Detail

canCopy

public boolean canCopy()

public boolean canCut()

public boolean canDelete()

public Element copy()

Makes a copy of this element. It is not specified whether
the copy is "deep" and whether it resides in the same model where
this element does.

Returns: Copy of this element.

public Element cut()

public void delete()

public Entity getParent()

Returns: Parent entity of this element.

public String getUniqueName()

Returns: Unique name of this element.

public boolean isDeleted()

public void resetParent()

Clears internal cache of parent element. Call this method if parent of
element has accidentally changed and you want providers to be called again
to determine new parent.