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1   package org.synchronoss.cpo.core.parser;
2   
3   /*-
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5    * core
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23   */
24  
25  import java.text.ParseException;
26  import java.util.List;
27  
28  /**
29   * {@code ExpressionParser} extracts bind-marker information from a native (SQL/CQL) function
30   * expression, letting CPO figure out which bean attribute each positional bind marker in the
31   * expression corresponds to.
32   *
33   * @author Michael Bellomo
34   */
35  public interface ExpressionParser {
36  
37    /**
38     * Returns the expression used by this parser
39     *
40     * @return The expression
41     */
42    String getExpression();
43  
44    /**
45     * Sets the expression to be used for this parser
46     *
47     * @param expression The expression
48     */
49    void setExpression(String expression);
50  
51    /**
52     * Returns the count of the bind markers in the expression
53     *
54     * @return the number of bind markers
55     */
56    int countArguments();
57  
58    /**
59     * Returns a list of columns from the expression for each bind marker
60     *
61     * @return List of Strings for the columns for the bind markers
62     * @throws ParseException thrown if the expression cannot be parsed
63     */
64    List<String> parse() throws ParseException;
65  }