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Interface MamlMetadata

public interface MamlMetadata

Characterises metadata that can be held in a MAML header.

MAML support in STIL is currently on a best efforts basis. This does not do an extremely faithful job of modelling the MAML metadata format.

Since:

22 Jun 2026

See Also:

https://github.com/asgr/MAML-Format

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static interface	MamlMetadata.Field Contains metadata about a column.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.util.Map<java.lang.String,MamlMetadata.Field>	getFields() Returns basic information about table columns, keyed by column name.
java.lang.String	getName() Returns the table name.
java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>	getParameters() Returns a map of metadata items with single String values.

Method Detail

getName

java.lang.String getName()

Returns the table name.

Returns:

value of the "table" key, if any

getParameters

java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> getParameters()

Returns a map of metadata items with single String values.

Returns:

string-valued items suitable for use as table parameters

getFields

java.util.Map<java.lang.String,MamlMetadata.Field> getFields()

Returns basic information about table columns, keyed by column name.

Returns:

map of column name to column metadata