INameUpdating.java

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package org.eclipse.edt.ide.ui.internal.refactoring.tagging;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
import org.eclipse.ltk.core.refactoring.RefactoringStatus;

/**
 * Represents processors in the JDT space that rename elements.
 */
public interface INameUpdating {
	
	/**
	 * Sets new name for the entity that this refactoring is working on.
	 */
	public void setNewElementName(String newName);
	
	/**
	 * Get the name for the entity that this refactoring is working on.
	 */
	public String getNewElementName();

	/**
	 * Gets the current name of the entity that this refactoring is working on.
	 */
	public String getCurrentElementName();
	
	/**
	 * Checks if the new name is valid for the entity that this refactoring renames.
	 */
	public RefactoringStatus checkNewElementName(String newName) throws CoreException;
}