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/*  This code generated by:
 *      Author : thomas
 *      Date   : Fri Jul 25 2003
 */

#ifndef CODECLASSFIELDDECLARATIONBLOCK_H
#define CODECLASSFIELDDECLARATIONBLOCK_H


class UMLObject;
class CodeClassField;

#include "codeblockwithcomments.h"
#include "ownedcodeblock.h"

/**
  * class CodeClassFieldDeclarationBlock
  * Used to declare classifier fields (e.g. either class attributes or classifier
  * associations) in the code document for any given code classfield. This is a
  * special CodeBlockWithComments which is "sync'd" to the parent CodeClassField.
  */

class CodeClassFieldDeclarationBlock : public CodeBlockWithComments, public OwnedCodeBlock
{
    friend class CodeClassField;
    TQ_OBJECT
  
public:

    // Constructors/Destructors
    //

    /**
     * Constructor
     */
    CodeClassFieldDeclarationBlock (CodeClassField * parent);

    /**
     * Empty Destructor
     */
    virtual ~CodeClassFieldDeclarationBlock ( );

    /**
     * Get the value of m_parentclassfield
     * @return the value of m_parentclassfield
     */
    CodeClassField * getParentClassField ( );

    /** A Utility method to get the parent object of the parentCodeClassfield
     */
    UMLObject * getParentObject ( );

    // get the parent document
    CodeDocument * getParentDocument ( );

    /**
     * Save the XMI representation of this object
     */
    virtual void saveToXMI ( TQDomDocument & doc, TQDomElement & root );

    /**
     * load params from the appropriate XMI element node.
     */
    virtual void loadFromXMI ( TQDomElement & root );

    /** set the class attributes from a passed object
     */
    virtual void setAttributesFromObject (TextBlock * obj);

protected:

    virtual void release ();

    /** set attributes of the node that represents this class
     * in the XMI document.
     */
    virtual void setAttributesOnNode ( TQDomDocument & doc, TQDomElement & blockElement);

    /** set the class attributes of this object from
     * the passed element node.
     */
    virtual void setAttributesFromNode ( TQDomElement & element);

    /** this is called by syncToParent
     */
    virtual void updateContent() = 0;

    // so parent can actually release this block
    void forceRelease ();

private:

    CodeClassField * m_parentclassfield;
    void init(CodeClassField * parent);

public slots:

    virtual void syncToParent();

};

#endif // CODECLASSFIELDDECLARATIONBLOCK_H
