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| <pre>public interface <span class="strong">PropertyMetaData</span></pre> |
| <div class="block">This interface defines meta data regarding a given configuration property.</div> |
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| <td class="colFirst"><code><a href="../../../../org/apache/felix/dm/PropertyMetaData.html" title="interface in org.apache.felix.dm">PropertyMetaData</a></code></td> |
| <td class="colLast"><code><strong><a href="../../../../org/apache/felix/dm/PropertyMetaData.html#addOption(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String)">addOption</a></strong>(java.lang.String optionLabel, |
| java.lang.String optionValue)</code> |
| <div class="block">Return a list of valid options for this property (the labels may be localized).</div> |
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| <td class="colFirst"><code><a href="../../../../org/apache/felix/dm/PropertyMetaData.html" title="interface in org.apache.felix.dm">PropertyMetaData</a></code></td> |
| <td class="colLast"><code><strong><a href="../../../../org/apache/felix/dm/PropertyMetaData.html#setCardinality(int)">setCardinality</a></strong>(int cardinality)</code> |
| <div class="block">Return the cardinality of this property.</div> |
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| <td class="colFirst"><code><a href="../../../../org/apache/felix/dm/PropertyMetaData.html" title="interface in org.apache.felix.dm">PropertyMetaData</a></code></td> |
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| <td class="colFirst"><code><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 the property description.</div> |
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| <td class="colFirst"><code><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">The label used to display the property.</div> |
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| <td class="colFirst"><code><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">The key of a ConfigurationAdmin property.</div> |
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| <div class="block">Tells if this property is required or not.</div> |
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| <td class="colFirst"><code><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">The label used to display the property. Example: "Log Level".</div> |
| <dl><dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>The label used to display the property (may be localized)</dd></dl> |
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| <div class="block">The key of a ConfigurationAdmin property. Example: "printer.logLevel"</div> |
| <dl><dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>The Configuration Admin property name</dd></dl> |
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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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| <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> |
| <dl><dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>a localizable description of the property.</dd></dl> |
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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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| java.lang.String optionValue)</pre> |
| <div class="block">Return a list of valid options for this property (the labels may be localized).</div> |
| <dl><dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>the list of valid options for this property.</dd></dl> |
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