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package de.ugoe.cs.autoquest.tasktrees.treeifc;

import de.ugoe.cs.autoquest.eventcore.IEventTarget;
import de.ugoe.cs.autoquest.eventcore.IEventType;

/**
 * <p>
 * Event tasks represent events. They have no children and are therefore the leaf nodes of the
 * task tree. They provide information about the event they represent. This includes the event
 * type and the target.
 * </p>
 * 
 * @author Patrick Harms
 */
public interface IEventTask extends ITask {
    
    /**
     * <p>
     * return the type of the event represented by this task
     * </p>
     * 
     * @return as described
     */
    public IEventType getEventType();

    /**
     * <p>
     * return the target of the event represented by this task
     * </p>
     * 
     * @return as described
     */
    public IEventTarget getEventTarget();

    /**
     * <p>
     * returns a clone of this task, i.e. another event task being identical to this. The event
     * type and target are not cloned but reused.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @return as described
     */
    public IEventTask clone();

}
