/* Soot - a J*va Optimization Framework
* Copyright (C) 1997-1999 Raja Vallee-Rai
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the
* Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
* Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*/
/*
* Modified by the Sable Research Group and others 1997-1999.
* See the 'credits' file distributed with Soot for the complete list of
* contributors. (Soot is distributed at http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot)
*/
package soot.tagkit;
import java.util.*;
// implemented by SootClass, SootField, SootMethod, Scene
/** A "taggable" object.
* Implementing classes can have arbitrary labelled data attached to them.
*
* Currently, only classes, fields, methods and the Scene are Hosts.
*
* One example of a tag would be to store Boolean values, associated with
* array accesses, indicating whether bounds checks can be omitted.
*
* @see Tag
*/
public interface Host
{
/** Gets a list of tags associated with the current object. */
public List<Tag> getTags();
/** Returns the tag with the given name. */
public Tag getTag(String aName);
/** Adds a tag. */
public void addTag(Tag t);
/** Removes the first tag with the given name. */
public void removeTag(String name);
/** Returns true if this host has a tag with the given name. */
public boolean hasTag(String aName);
/** Removes all the tags from this host. */
public void removeAllTags();
/** Adds all the tags from h to this host. */
public void addAllTagsOf( Host h );
}