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package org.apache.camel;

/**
 * Represents a node in the {@link org.apache.camel.model routes} which is identified by an id.
 */
public interface NamedNode {

    /**
     * Gets the value of the id property.
     */
    String getId();

    /**
     * Returns a short name for this node which can be useful for ID generation or referring to related resources like images
     *
     * @return defaults to "node" but derived nodes should overload this to provide a unique name
     */
    String getShortName();

    /**
     * Returns a label to describe this node such as the expression if some kind of expression node
     */
    String getLabel();

    /**
     * Returns the description text or null if there is no description text associated with this node
     */
    String getDescriptionText();

    /**
     * Returns the parent
     */
    NamedNode getParent();

}
