Type IAnnotatable

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 Interface --+
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            IAnnotatable

Known Subclasses:

IFolder, IModule, ITranslationStore, ITranslationUnit

An object that can have annotations.

Annotations are arbitrary pieces of data that are stored as strings. Each of these must have a key, a 7-bit string; the value must be an ordinary string or a unicode string.

Intended use of annotations is to store metadata, e.g., last modification date, last author, translation owner, permissions, etc.

Note that you can store arbitrary objects by simply pickling them before writing and then unpickling after read. However, transparent, human-readable strings are preferred. It may also be not a very good idea to use annotations for large blobs.