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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
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+ *
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+ *
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+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_configuration_GroupAccess_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_configuration_GroupAccess_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/configuration/HierarchyAccess.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/configuration/PropertyHierarchy.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/XPropertyState.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/XMultiPropertyStates.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module configuration {
+
+/** provides access to a predefined heterogeneous group of values and nested
+ trees as part of a hierarchy.
+
+ <p>Provides access to, and information about, its children and descendants
+ viewed either as properties or as contained elements.
+ </p>
+
+ <p><em>Groups</em> are static collections within the hierarchy.</p>
+
+ <p>The number and names of contained elements are fixed in advance
+ and each child may have a different type.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>This service subsumes two alternate ways of accessing child and descendent
+ elements. These strongly overlap, supporting the basic identity
+ <code>xGroup.getPropertyValue( aName ) == xGroup.getByName( aName )</code>.
+ </p>
+
+ @see com::sun::star::configuration::GroupElement
+ Child objects of this service generally implement service GroupElement.
+
+ @see com::sun::star::configuration::SetAccess
+ A complementary service providing for dynamic homogeneous sets of elements.
+
+*/
+published service GroupAccess
+{
+/** is the basic service for accessing child and descendent nodes using
+ a view of the tree as a container of values and structuring elements.
+*/
+ service HierarchyAccess;
+
+/** is the basic service for accessing child and descendent nodes using
+ a view of the tree as a hierarchy of properties and subproperties.
+
+ <p>This view is meaningful only for a static fragment of the hierarchy
+ Object's properties may change, but not which properties they have.
+ Therefore, dynamic elements of the hierarchy (see SetAccess)
+ do not implement service PropertyHierarchy.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>If such elements occur as properties or subproperties of an implementation,
+ it is not specified whether direct subproperty access using
+ com::sun::star::beans::XHierarchicalPropertySet or
+ com::sun::star::beans::XMultiHierarchicalPropertySet can
+ be used to access descendants of such elements.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>Similarly, information about such descendants may not be available from
+ the com::sun::star::beans::XHierarchicalPropertySetInfo
+ the implementation provides.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>If an implementation is part of a <em>read-only</em> view of the hierarchy,
+ all properties and subproperties will be reported as having attribute
+ com::sun::star::beans::PropertyAttribute::READONLY set,
+ and attempts to change property values will fail.
+ </p>
+*/
+ service PropertyHierarchy;
+
+/** provides access to the state of child elements of an implementation. [optional]
+
+ <p>This interface should be present, if the hierarchy supports default values
+ for simple (non-object) properties and the group contains such properties.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>For properties that are objects themselves, the semantic documented for
+ service HierarchyAccess applies.
+ </p>
+ */
+ [optional] interface com::sun::star::beans::XPropertyState;
+
+/** provides access to the states of multiple child elements of
+ an implementation. [optional]
+
+ <p>This interface should be present, if the hierarchy supports default values
+ for simple (non-object) properties and the group contains such properties.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>For properties that are objects themselves, the semantic documented for
+ service HierarchyAccess applies.
+ </p>
+*/
+ [optional] interface com::sun::star::beans::XMultiPropertyStates;
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */