<?php
/**
 * Zend Framework (http://framework.zend.com/)
 *
 * @link      http://github.com/zendframework/zf2 for the canonical source repository
 * @copyright Copyright (c) 2005-2013 Zend Technologies USA Inc. (http://www.zend.com)
 * @license   http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd New BSD License
 */

namespace Zend\Db\Sql;

interface ExpressionInterface
{
    const TYPE_IDENTIFIER = 'identifier';
    const TYPE_VALUE = 'value';
    const TYPE_LITERAL = 'literal';

    /**
     * @deprecated This will go away in 2.1
     */
    const TYPE_SELECT = 'select';

    /**
     * @abstract
     *
     * @return array of array|string should return an array in the format:
     *
     * array (
     *    // a sprintf formatted string
     *    string $specification,
     *
     *    // the values for the above sprintf formatted string
     *    array $values,
     *
     *    // an array of equal length of the $values array, with either TYPE_IDENTIFIER or TYPE_VALUE for each value
     *    array $types,
     * )
     *
     */
    public function getExpressionData();
}
