/*
  Copyright (C) 2007 Helge Hess

  This file is part of JOPE.

  JOPE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
  the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
  Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
  later version.

  JOPE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
  WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public
  License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License along with JOPE; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
  Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
  02111-1307, USA.
*/
package org.opengroupware.jope.foundation;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * A marker interface which denotes objects which can store additional key/value
 * pairs in a HashMap via KVC (w/o declaring ivars).
 * <p>
 * This is WOComponent and WOSession. 
 */
public interface INSExtraVariables {

  public void setObjectForKey(Object _value, String _key);
  public void removeObjectForKey(String _key);
  public Object objectForKey(String _key);
  public Map<String,Object> variableDictionary();
  
}