    001/*-
    002 *******************************************************************************
    003 * Copyright (c) 2011, 2016 Diamond Light Source Ltd.
    004 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
    005 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
    006 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
    007 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
    008 *
    009 * Contributors:
    010 *    Peter Chang - initial API and implementation and/or initial documentation
    011 *******************************************************************************/
    012
    013package org.eclipse.january.metadata;
    014
    015import javax.measure.Unit;
    016
    017/**
    018 * This metadata describes the unit associated with the quantity stored in a dataset
    019 * @since 2.1
    020 */
    021public interface UnitMetadata extends MetadataType {
    022
    023        /**
    024         * Initialize unit metadata with given unit
    025         * @param unit
    026         */
    027        public void initialize(Unit<?> unit);
    028
    029        /**
    030         * Get unit
    031         * @return unit of dataset
    032         */
    033        public Unit<?> getUnit();
    034}