net.sf.mmm.util.lang.api

Interface EnumTypeWithCategory<V,CATEGORY>

Type Parameters:

V - is the generic type of the value.

CATEGORY - is the generic type of the category.

All Superinterfaces:

AttributeReadValue<V>, Datatype, Serializable, SimpleDatatype<V>

public interface EnumTypeWithCategory<V,CATEGORY>
extends SimpleDatatype<V>

This is the interface for an EnumType that has a category.

Since:

3.0.0

Author:

Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
CATEGORY	getCategory() This method gets the EnumType of the category of this enum instance.

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.mmm.util.lang.api.SimpleDatatype

getValue

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.mmm.util.lang.api.Datatype

toString

Method Detail

getCategory

CATEGORY getCategory()

This method gets the EnumType of the category of this enum instance. The category typically expresses a belongs to relationship.
E.g. a state could be an EnumType that has another EnumType called country as category. Further, a city could be another EnumType that has state as category.

Returns:

the ID of the EnumType that represents the category of this instance.

See Also:

EnumDefinition.getCategory()