package tudelft.healthpsychology.traumaontologies.answerstate;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAutoDetect;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAutoDetect.Visibility;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonSubTypes;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonSubTypes.Type;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonTypeInfo;

import tudelft.healthpsychology.traumaontologies.owltree.OwlProperty;
import tudelft.healthpsychology.traumaontologies.questiontypes.TypedQuestion;

/**
 * Atrributes of an {@link OntologyNode}. Each property node contains a question
 * and the type of answer to be gotten from this question.
 * 
 * <p>
 * Property must be json-serializable (contain json annotations) because some
 * {@link AnswerState}s (that need to be serialized) contain this.
 */
@JsonAutoDetect(fieldVisibility = Visibility.ANY, getterVisibility = Visibility.NONE, setterVisibility = Visibility.NONE)
@JsonTypeInfo(use = JsonTypeInfo.Id.NAME, include = JsonTypeInfo.As.WRAPPER_OBJECT)
@JsonSubTypes({ @Type(value = OwlProperty.class) })
public interface Property {

	/**
	 * @return the AnswerType contained in this property: the question and the
	 *         expected type of answer.
	 */
	TypedQuestion getQuestionType();

}