001/* 002// $Id: NamedList.java 482 2012-01-05 23:27:27Z jhyde $ 003// 004// Licensed to Julian Hyde under one or more contributor license 005// agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for 006// additional information regarding copyright ownership. 007// 008// Julian Hyde licenses this file to you under the Apache License, 009// Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in 010// compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at: 011// 012// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 013// 014// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 015// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 016// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 017// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 018// limitations under the License. 019*/ 020package org.olap4j.metadata; 021 022import java.util.List; 023 024/** 025 * Extension to {@link java.util.List} which allows access to members of the 026 * list by name as well as by ordinal. 027 * 028 * @author jhyde 029 * @version $Id: NamedList.java 482 2012-01-05 23:27:27Z jhyde $ 030 * @since Aug 22, 2006 031 */ 032public interface NamedList<E> extends List<E> { 033 /** 034 * Retrieves a member by name. 035 * 036 * @param name name of the element to return 037 * 038 * @see #get(int) 039 * 040 * @return the element of the list with the specified name, or null if 041 * there is no such element 042 */ 043 E get(String name); 044 045 /** 046 * Returns the position where a member of a given name is found, or -1 047 * if the member is not present. 048 * 049 * @param name name of the element to return 050 * 051 * @return the index of element of the list with the specified name, or -1 052 * if there is no such element 053 * 054 * @see #indexOf(Object) 055 */ 056 int indexOfName(String name); 057} 058 059// End NamedList.java