001 /* 002 * JBoss DNA (http://www.jboss.org/dna) 003 * See the COPYRIGHT.txt file distributed with this work for information 004 * regarding copyright ownership. Some portions may be licensed 005 * to Red Hat, Inc. under one or more contributor license agreements. 006 * See the AUTHORS.txt file in the distribution for a full listing of 007 * individual contributors. 008 * 009 * JBoss DNA is free software. Unless otherwise indicated, all code in JBoss DNA 010 * is licensed to you under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 011 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of 012 * the License, or (at your option) any later version. 013 * 014 * JBoss DNA is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 015 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 016 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 017 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 018 * 019 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 020 * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free 021 * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 022 * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. 023 */ 024 package org.jboss.dna.graph.property; 025 026 import org.jboss.dna.common.text.TextDecoder; 027 028 /** 029 * A factory for creating {@link Name names}. 030 * 031 * @author Randall Hauch 032 */ 033 public interface NameFactory extends ValueFactory<Name> { 034 035 /** 036 * Create a name from the given namespace URI and local name. 037 * <p> 038 * This method is equivalent to calling {@link #create(String, String, TextDecoder)} with a null encoder. 039 * </p> 040 * 041 * @param namespaceUri the namespace URI 042 * @param localName the local name 043 * @return the new name 044 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the local name is <code>null</code> or empty 045 */ 046 Name create( String namespaceUri, 047 String localName ); 048 049 /** 050 * Create a name from the given namespace URI and local name. 051 * 052 * @param namespaceUri the namespace URI 053 * @param localName the local name 054 * @param decoder the decoder that should be used to decode the qualified name 055 * @return the new name 056 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the local name is <code>null</code> or empty 057 */ 058 Name create( String namespaceUri, 059 String localName, 060 TextDecoder decoder ); 061 062 /** 063 * Get the namespace registry. 064 * 065 * @return the namespace registry; never <code>null</code> 066 */ 067 NamespaceRegistry getNamespaceRegistry(); 068 }