001 /* 002 * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source. 003 * Copyright 2008, Red Hat Middleware LLC, and individual contributors 004 * as indicated by the @author tags. See the copyright.txt file in the 005 * distribution for a full listing of individual contributors. 006 * 007 * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 008 * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 009 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of 010 * the License, or (at your option) any later version. 011 * 012 * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 013 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 014 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 015 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 016 * 017 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 018 * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free 019 * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 020 * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. 021 */ 022 package org.jboss.dna.graph.properties; 023 024 import org.jboss.dna.common.text.TextDecoder; 025 026 /** 027 * A factory for creating {@link Name names}. 028 * 029 * @author Randall Hauch 030 */ 031 public interface NameFactory extends ValueFactory<Name> { 032 033 /** 034 * Create a name from the given namespace URI and local name. 035 * <p> 036 * This method is equivalent to calling {@link #create(String, String, TextDecoder)} with a null encoder. 037 * </p> 038 * 039 * @param namespaceUri the namespace URI 040 * @param localName the local name 041 * @return the new name 042 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the local name is <code>null</code> or empty 043 */ 044 Name create( String namespaceUri, 045 String localName ); 046 047 /** 048 * Create a name from the given namespace URI and local name. 049 * 050 * @param namespaceUri the namespace URI 051 * @param localName the local name 052 * @param decoder the decoder that should be used to decode the qualified name 053 * @return the new name 054 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the local name is <code>null</code> or empty 055 */ 056 Name create( String namespaceUri, 057 String localName, 058 TextDecoder decoder ); 059 060 /** 061 * Get the namespace registry. 062 * 063 * @return the namespace registry; never <code>null</code> 064 */ 065 NamespaceRegistry getNamespaceRegistry(); 066 }