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<pre>public interface <span class="typeNameLabel">PropertyMetaData</span></pre>
<div class="block">This interface defines meta data regarding a given configuration property.</div>
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<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../org/apache/felix/dm/PropertyMetaData.html#addOption-java.lang.String-java.lang.String-">addOption</a></span>(java.lang.String&nbsp;optionLabel,
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<div class="block">Return a list of valid options for this property (the labels may be localized).</div>
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<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../org/apache/felix/dm/PropertyMetaData.html#setCardinality-int-">setCardinality</a></span>(int&nbsp;cardinality)</code>
<div class="block">Return the cardinality of this property.</div>
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<div class="block">Returns a default for this property.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><code>default <a href="../../../../org/apache/felix/dm/PropertyMetaData.html" title="interface in org.apache.felix.dm">PropertyMetaData</a></code></td>
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<div class="block">Returns some defaults for this property.</div>
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<div class="block">Returns the property description.</div>
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<div class="block">The label used to display the property.</div>
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<div class="block">The key of a ConfigurationAdmin property.</div>
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<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../org/apache/felix/dm/PropertyMetaData.html#setRequired-boolean-">setRequired</a></span>(boolean&nbsp;required)</code>
<div class="block">Tells if this property is required or not.</div>
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<div class="block">The label used to display the property. Example: "Log Level".</div>
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<div class="block">The key of a ConfigurationAdmin property. Example: "printer.logLevel"</div>
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<div class="block">Returns the property primitive type. If must be either one of the following types:<p>
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<li>String.class</li>
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<div class="block">Returns a default for this property. The object must be of the appropriate type as defined by the cardinality and getType().
The return type is a list of String objects that can be converted to the appropriate type. The cardinality of the return
array must follow the absolute cardinality of this type. E.g. if the cardinality = 0, the array must contain 1 element.
If the cardinality is 1, it must contain 0 or 1 elements. If it is -5, it must contain from 0 to max 5 elements. Note that
the special case of a 0 cardinality, meaning a single value, does not allow arrays or vectors of 0 elements.</div>
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<pre>default&nbsp;<a href="../../../../org/apache/felix/dm/PropertyMetaData.html" title="interface in org.apache.felix.dm">PropertyMetaData</a>&nbsp;setDefaults(java.lang.String&nbsp;def,
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<div class="block">Returns some defaults for this property. The object must be of the appropriate type as defined by the cardinality and getType().
The return type is a list of String objects that can be converted to the appropriate type. The cardinality of the return
array must follow the absolute cardinality of this type. E.g. if the cardinality = 0, the array must contain 1 element.
If the cardinality is 1, it must contain 0 or 1 elements. If it is -5, it must contain from 0 to max 5 elements. Note that
the special case of a 0 cardinality, meaning a single value, does not allow arrays or vectors of 0 elements.</div>
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<div class="block">Returns the property description. The description may be localized and must describe the semantics of this type and any
constraints. Example: "Select the log level for the Printer Service".</div>
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<div class="block">Return the cardinality of this property. The OSGi environment handles multi valued properties in arrays ([]) or in Vector objects.
The return value is defined as follows:<p>
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<li> x = Integer.MIN_VALUE no limit, but use Vector</li>
<li> x < 0 -x = max occurrences, store in Vector</li>
<li> x > 0 x = max occurrences, store in array []</li>
<li> x = Integer.MAX_VALUE no limit, but use array []</li>
<li> x = 0 1 occurrence required</li>
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