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"""Annotations store arbitrary application data under package-unique keys.

$Id: interfaces.py 26632 2004-07-19 14:56:53Z jim $
"""

__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext'

from zope.interface import Interface

class IAnnotatable(Interface):
    """Marker interface for objects that support storing annotations.

    This interface says "There exists an adapter to an IAnnotations
    for an object that implements `IAnnotatable`".

    Classes should not directly declare that they implement this interface.
    Instead they should implement an interface derived from this one, which
    details how the annotations are to be stored, such as
    `IAttributeAnnotatable`.
    """

class IAnnotations(IAnnotatable):
    """Stores arbitrary application data under package-unique keys.

    By "package-unique keys", we mean keys that are are unique by
    virtue of including the dotted name of a package as a prefex.  A
    package name is used to limit the authority for picking names for
    a package to the people using that package.

    For example, when implementing annotations for storing Zope
    Dublin-Core meta-data, we use the key::

      "zope.app.dublincore.ZopeDublinCore"

    """

    def __nonzero__():
        """Test whether there are any annotations
        """

    def __getitem__(key):
        """Return the annotation stored under key.

        Raises KeyError if key not found.
        """

    def get(key, default=None):
        """Return the annotation stored under key, or default if not found.
        """

    def __setitem__(key, value):
        """Store annotation under key.

        In order to avoid key collisions, users of this interface must
        use their dotted package name as part of the key name.
        """

    def __delitem__(key):
        """Removes the annotation stored under key.

        Raises a KeyError if the key is not found.
        """

class IAttributeAnnotatable(IAnnotatable):
    """Marker indicating that annotations can be stored on an attribute.
    
    This is a marker interface giving permission for an `IAnnotations`
    adapter to store data in an attribute named `__annotations__`.

    """
