package it.unibz.inf.ontop.dbschema;

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import it.unibz.inf.ontop.model.type.DBTermType;

/**
 * Represents an attribute (column) of a database relation (table or view) or a parser view
 *
 * @author Roman Kontchakov
 *
 */

public interface Attribute {

    RelationDefinition getRelation();

    QuotedID getID();

    /**
     * @return the index (starting from 1)
     */
    int getIndex();

    boolean isNullable();

    DBTermType getTermType();

}
