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* Copyright (c) 2013, 2015 QNX Software Systems and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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*
* Contributors:
* Andrew Eidsness - Initial implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.tag;
/**
* An interface that allows tag creation and modification.
*
* @see ITag
* @see ITagService
* @since 5.5
*/
public interface ITagWriter {
/**
* Creates and returns a new tag for the receiver. E.g., if this writer is associated with
* a persistent binding, then returned tag will read and write from the PDOM database.
*
* @param id
* A string that uniquely identifies the tag to be returned. This value will be used
* by the contributor when to find the tag (see {@link ITagReader#getTag(String)}).
* @param len
* The number of bytes that should be allocated to store the tag's data.
*/
public IWritableTag createTag(String id, int len);
/**
* Sets the receiver's tags to only the ones provided. Deletes existing tags that are not in
* the argument list.
*/
public boolean setTags(Iterable<ITag> tags);
}