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+package jalview.ws.dbsources.das.api;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import jalview.ws.seqfetcher.DbSourceProxy;
+
+import org.biodas.jdas.schema.sources.MAINTAINER;
+import org.biodas.jdas.schema.sources.VERSION;
+
+public interface jalviewSourceI
+{
+
+ String getTitle();
+
+ VERSION getVersion();
+
+ String getDocHref();
+
+ String getDescription();
+
+ String getUri();
+
+ MAINTAINER getMAINTAINER();
+
+ String getEmail();
+
+ boolean isLocal();
+
+ boolean isSequenceSource();
+
+ String[] getCapabilityList(VERSION v);
+
+ String[] getLabelsFor(VERSION v);
+
+ /**
+ *
+ * @return null if not a sequence source, otherwise a series of database sources that can be used to retrieve sequence data for particular database coordinate systems
+ */
+ List<DbSourceProxy> getSequenceSourceProxies();
+
+ boolean isFeatureSource();
+
+ /**
+ * returns the base URL for the latest version of a source's DAS endpoint set
+ * @return
+ */
+ String getSourceURL();
+
+}