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package com.google.gwt.core.ext.linker;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Represents a configuration property. These properties do not affect
 * deferred-binding decisions, but may affect the behavior of Linkers and
 * Generators.
 */
public interface ConfigurationProperty {
  /*
   * NB: This is not a super-interface of SelectionProperty, since these kinds
   * of properties are always guaranteed to have a defined value. The only
   * commonality is getName() which doesn't seem all that useful to extract.
   */

  /**
   * Returns the name of the configuration property.
   */
  String getName();

  /**
   * Returns the defined values for the configuration property as a List
   * of Strings.
   */
  List<String> getValues();

  /**
   * Returns true if this property has more than one value.
   */
  boolean hasMultipleValues();
}
