001 /** 002 The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 003 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 004 You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ 005 Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, 006 WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 007 specific language governing rights and limitations under the License. 008 009 The Original Code is "Primitive.java". Description: 010 "Represents the category of HL7 data types that contain a single value (in other 011 words have no subcomponents)" 012 013 The Initial Developer of the Original Code is University Health Network. Copyright (C) 014 2001. All Rights Reserved. 015 016 Contributor(s): ______________________________________. 017 018 Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of the 019 GNU General Public License (the ?GPL?), in which case the provisions of the GPL are 020 applicable instead of those above. If you wish to allow use of your version of this 021 file only under the terms of the GPL and not to allow others to use your version 022 of this file under the MPL, indicate your decision by deleting the provisions above 023 and replace them with the notice and other provisions required by the GPL License. 024 If you do not delete the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of 025 this file under either the MPL or the GPL. 026 027 */ 028 029 package ca.uhn.hl7v2.model; 030 031 032 /** 033 * Represents the category of HL7 data types that contain a single value (in other 034 * words have no subcomponents). Examples include ST and ID. 035 * @author Bryan Tripp (bryan_tripp@sourceforge.net) 036 */ 037 public interface Primitive extends Type { 038 039 /** 040 * Returns a String representation of the value of this field. 041 */ 042 public String getValue(); 043 044 /** 045 * Sets the value of this field if the given value is legal in the context of the 046 * implementing class. 047 * @throws DataTypeException if the given value is not valid in this context. 048 */ 049 public void setValue(String value) throws DataTypeException; 050 051 }