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+/*\r
+\r
+ Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.sql.ResultColumnDescriptor\r
+\r
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more\r
+ contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with\r
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.\r
+ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0\r
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with\r
+ the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at\r
+\r
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0\r
+\r
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software\r
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,\r
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.\r
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and\r
+ limitations under the License.\r
+\r
+ */\r
+\r
+package org.apache.derby.iapi.sql;\r
+\r
+import org.apache.derby.iapi.types.DataTypeDescriptor;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * A ResultColumnDescriptor describes a result column in a ResultSet.\r
+ *\r
+ */\r
+\r
+public interface ResultColumnDescriptor\r
+{\r
+ /**\r
+ * Returns a DataTypeDescriptor for the column. This DataTypeDescriptor\r
+ * will not represent an actual value, it will only represent the type\r
+ * that all values in the column will have.\r
+ *\r
+ * @return A DataTypeDescriptor describing the type of the column.\r
+ */\r
+ DataTypeDescriptor getType();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Returns the name of the Column.\r
+ *\r
+ * @return A String containing the name of the column.\r
+ */\r
+ String getName();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Get the name of the schema for the Column's base table, if any.\r
+ * Following example queries will all return APP (assuming user is in schema APP)\r
+ * select t.a from t\r
+ * select b.a from t as b\r
+ * select app.t.a from t\r
+ *\r
+ * @return The name of the schema of the Column's base table. If the column\r
+ * is not in a schema (i.e. is a derived column), it returns NULL.\r
+ */\r
+ String getSourceSchemaName();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Get the name of the underlying(base) table this column comes from, if any.\r
+ * Following example queries will all return T\r
+ * select a from t\r
+ * select b.a from t as b\r
+ * select t.a from t\r
+ *\r
+ * @return A String containing the name of the base table of the Column\r
+ * is in. If the column is not in a table (i.e. is a\r
+ * derived column), it returns NULL.\r
+ * @return The name of the Column's base table. If the column\r
+ * is not in a schema (i.e. is a derived column), it returns NULL.\r
+ */\r
+ String getSourceTableName();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Return true if the column is wirtable by a positioned update.\r
+ *\r
+ * @return TRUE, if the column is a base column of a table and is \r
+ * writable by a positioned update.\r
+ */\r
+ boolean updatableByCursor();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Get the position of the Column.\r
+ * NOTE - position is 1-based.\r
+ *\r
+ * @return An int containing the position of the Column\r
+ * within the table.\r
+ */\r
+ int getColumnPosition();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Tell us if the column is an autoincrement column or not.\r
+ * \r
+ * @return TRUE, if the column is a base column of a table and is an\r
+ * autoincrement column.\r
+ */\r
+ boolean isAutoincrement();\r
+\r
+ /*\r
+ * NOTE: These interfaces are intended to support JDBC. There are some\r
+ * JDBC methods on java.sql.ResultSetMetaData that have no equivalent\r
+ * here, mainly because they are of questionable use to us. They are:\r
+ * getCatalogName() (will we support catalogs?), getColumnLabel(),\r
+ * isCaseSensitive(), isCurrency(),\r
+ * isDefinitelyWritable(), isReadOnly(), isSearchable(), isSigned(),\r
+ * isWritable()). The JDBC driver implements these itself, using\r
+ * the data type information and knowing data type characteristics.\r
+ */\r
+}\r