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/*  This code generated by:
 *      Author : thomas
 *      Date   : Tue Jul 1 2003
 */



#ifndef CODEACCESSORMETHOD_H
#define CODEACCESSORMETHOD_H

#include <tqstring.h>
#include "codemethodblock.h"

class CodeClassField;

class CodeAccessorMethod : public CodeMethodBlock
{
    friend class CodeClassField;
    TQ_OBJECT
  
public:

    // some types of accessor methods that are possible:
    // "GET" is to retrieve single-valued (primative or Object) fields
    // "SET" is to set single-valued (primative or Object) fields
    // "ADD" is to add a value to a multiple-valued field of either primative or Object items
    // "REMOVE" is to remove a value to a multiple-valued field of either primative or Object items
    // "LIST" is to retrive the entire list of items in a  multiple-valued field
    enum AccessorType {GET=0, SET, ADD, REMOVE, LIST};

    // Constructors/Destructors
    //


    /**
     * Constructors
     */
    CodeAccessorMethod ( CodeClassField * field );

    /**
     * Empty Destructor
     */
    virtual ~CodeAccessorMethod ( );

    /**
     * Get the value of m_parentclassfield
     * @return the value of m_parentclassfield
     */
    CodeClassField * getParentClassField ( );

    /** return the type of accessor method this is
         */
    AccessorType getType( );

    /** Set the type of accessor method this is
     */
    void setType ( AccessorType type);

    /** Utility method to get the value of the parent object of the parent classifield.
    */
    // virtual UMLObject * getParentObject();

    bool parentIsAttribute();

    /**
     * Save the XMI representation of this object
     */
    virtual void saveToXMI ( TQDomDocument & doc, TQDomElement & root );

    /**
     * load params from the appropriate XMI element node.
     */
    virtual void loadFromXMI ( TQDomElement & root );

    /** set the class attributes from a passed object
     */
    virtual void setAttributesFromObject (TextBlock * obj);

protected:

    virtual void release ();

    /** set attributes of the node that represents this class
    * in the XMI document.
    */
    virtual void setAttributesOnNode ( TQDomDocument & doc, TQDomElement & blockElement);

    /** set the class attributes of this object from
     * the passed element node.
     */
    virtual void setAttributesFromNode ( TQDomElement & element);

    virtual void updateMethodDeclaration() = 0;

    virtual void updateContent() = 0;

    // a method so the parent code classfield can force code block to release
    void forceRelease ();

private:

    CodeClassField * m_parentclassfield;
    AccessorType m_accessorType;

    void initFields(CodeClassField * parentCF );

};

#endif // CODEACCESSORMETHOD_H
