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017package org.opends.guitools.controlpanel.datamodel;
018
019import org.forgerock.i18n.LocalizableMessage;
020
021/**
022 * An interface defining the different methods required by the UI components
023 * to display monitoring attributes data.
024 *
025 */
026public interface MonitoringAttributes
027{
028  /**
029   * Returns the message associated with the attribute (basically is the
030   * localized name of the operation associated with the attribute).
031   * @return the message associated with the attribute.
032   */
033  LocalizableMessage getMessage();
034
035  /**
036   * Returns the name of the attribute.
037   * @return the name of the attribute.
038   */
039  String getAttributeName();
040
041  /**
042   * Return whether this attribute contains a numeric value or not.
043   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value is numeric and <CODE>false</CODE>
044   * otherwise.
045   */
046  boolean isNumeric();
047
048  /**
049   * Return whether this attribute contains a time value or not.
050   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value is a time and <CODE>false</CODE>
051   * otherwise.
052   */
053  boolean isTime();
054
055  /**
056   * Return whether this attribute contains a numeric date value or not.
057   * The date is a long value in milliseconds.
058   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value is date and <CODE>false</CODE>
059   * otherwise.
060   */
061  boolean isNumericDate();
062
063  /**
064   * Return whether this attribute contains a GMT date value or not.  The date
065   * has a format of type ServerConstants.DATE_FORMAT_GMT_TIME.
066   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value is a GMT date and <CODE>false</CODE>
067   * otherwise.
068   */
069  boolean isGMTDate();
070
071  /**
072   * Return whether this attribute represents a value in bytes or not.
073   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the value represents a value in bytes and
074   * <CODE>false</CODE> otherwise.
075   */
076  boolean isValueInBytes();
077
078  /**
079   * Returns <CODE>true</CODE> if the average for this attribute makes sense
080   * and <CODE>false</CODE> otherwise.
081   * @return <CODE>true</CODE> if the average for this attribute makes sense
082   * and <CODE>false</CODE> otherwise.
083   */
084  boolean canHaveAverage();
085}