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}