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+/*******************************************************************************\r
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 Association for Decentralized Information Management\r
+ * in Industry THTH ry.\r
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials\r
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0\r
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at\r
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html\r
+ *\r
+ * Contributors:\r
+ * VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation\r
+ *******************************************************************************/\r
+package org.simantics.db.layer0.variable;\r
+\r
+import org.simantics.db.ReadGraph;\r
+import org.simantics.db.Resource;\r
+import org.simantics.db.exception.DatabaseException;\r
+\r
+public interface VariableInterface {\r
+ /*\r
+ * @param uri A full variable URI\r
+ */\r
+ Variable getVariable(ReadGraph graph, String uri);\r
+ /*\r
+ * @param base a resource with URI\r
+ * @param uri A relative variable URI\r
+ */\r
+ Variable getVariable(ReadGraph graph, Resource base, String suffix);\r
+ Variable getVariable(ReadGraph graph, Resource variable);\r
+ /*\r
+ * A context-dependent object which encodes a variable\r
+ */\r
+ <T> Variable getVariable(ReadGraph graph, T context) throws DatabaseException;\r
+ <T> Variable getVariable(ReadGraph graph, Variable basedOn, T context) throws DatabaseException;\r
+ \r
+}\r