| LanguageResource |

    1   /*
    2    *  LanguageResource.java
    3    *
    4    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2001, The University of Sheffield.
    5    *
    6    *  This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
    7    *  software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
    8    *  Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
    9    *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
    10   *
    11   *  Hamish Cunningham, 11/Feb/2000
    12   *
    13   *  $Id: LanguageResource.java,v 1.10 2001/11/13 17:09:57 marin Exp $
    14   */
    15
    16  package gate;
    17
    18  import java.util.*;
    19  import java.io.*;
    20
    21  import gate.util.*;
    22  import gate.persist.*;
    23  import gate.security.SecurityException;
    24
    25  /** Models all sorts of language resources.
    26    */
    27  public interface LanguageResource extends Resource
    28  {
    29    /** Get the data store that this LR lives in. Null for transient LRs. */
    30    public DataStore getDataStore();
    31
    32    /** Set the data store that this LR lives in. */
    33    public void setDataStore(DataStore dataStore) throws PersistenceException;
    34
    35    /** Returns the persistence id of this LR, if it has been stored in
    36     *  a datastore. Null otherwise.
    37     */
    38    public Object getLRPersistenceId();
    39
    40    /** Sets the persistence id of this LR. To be used only in the
    41     *  Factory and DataStore code.
    42     */
    43    public void setLRPersistenceId(Object lrID);
    44
    45    /** Save: synchonise the in-memory image of the LR with the persistent
    46      * image.
    47      */
    48    public void sync() throws PersistenceException,SecurityException;
    49
    50  } // interface LanguageResource
    51

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