Governance<V> class abstract interface

The foundational Authority Protocol for defining structural and behavioral guardrails within the framework's Mandate ontology.

Governance acts as a Type-Level Marker for objects that represent official system policies. It binds a generic type V to the governance hierarchy, allowing the Context to organize metadata into distinct, type-safe Mandate dimensions.

When to use

You rarely need to implement this interface directly. The framework provides ready‑to‑use enums like Ontology, Provenance, and Mandate. Use their .entry(value) factory to create typed governance entries for building contexts.

How it works

Each governance dimension is a typed key that holds a value of type V. The framework uses these to enforce security, compliance, and operational rules. The evolvable flag decides whether a dimension can be refined when you create a deputy.

Non‑obvious

  • The isType guard prevents type mismatches at runtime – it's why you can't accidentally put a String where a List<String> is expected.
  • The evolvable flag is what stops a deputy from changing its core identity (like role or taxonomy) – that's intentional to prevent privilege escalation.

Type Parameters:

  • V: The expected value type for this specific governance dimension.
Implemented types
Implementers
Available extensions

Properties

evolvable → bool
Indicates whether this governance dimension can be specialized or modified during a context Context.evolve operation.
no setter
hashCode → int
The hash code for this object.
no setterinherited
index → int
A numeric identifier for the enumerated value.
no setterinherited
name → String

Available on Enum, provided by the EnumName extension

The name of the enum value.
no setter
runtimeType → Type
A representation of the runtime type of the object.
no setterinherited

Methods

entry(V value) → GovernanceEntry<Governance<V>, V>
Synthesizes a new GovernanceEntry by binding a concrete value to this dimension's Governance protocol.
isType(Object value) → bool
A Type Guard and Ontological Validator that verifies if a given value conforms to the expected type of this governance dimension.
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic
Invoked when a nonexistent method or property is accessed.
inherited
toString() → String
A string representation of this object.
inherited

Operators

operator ==(Object other) → bool
The equality operator.
inherited