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 to set
026         */
027        public void initialize(Unit<?> unit);
028
029        /**
030         * Get unit
031         * @return unit of dataset
032         */
033        public Unit<?> getUnit();
034}