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+package de.intevation.gnv.state;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+/**
+ * This interface defines some basic methods to retrieve information about the
+ * type of an user input.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="mailto:tim.englich@intevation.de">Tim Englich</a>
+ *
+ */
+public interface InputValue extends Serializable {
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve the name of the inserted data.
+     *
+     * @return the input data name.
+     */
+    public String getName();
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve the type of the input.
+     *
+     * @return the input data type.
+     */
+    public String getType();
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve the default value used when no input is done.
+     *
+     * @return the input data default value.
+     */
+    public String getDefaultValue();
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve information about mutliselect fields.
+     *
+     * @return true, if the input data is a multiselect, otherwise false.
+     */
+    public boolean isMultiselect();
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve information about the occurance of this input in an sql
+     * statement.
+     *
+     * @return the number of times, this data is used in a sql query.
+     */
+    public int usedInQueries();
+}
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