IJavaReference.java

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 * Copyright (c) 2011 Red Hat, Inc. 
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 * Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, 
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 * Contributors: 
 * Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation 
 ******************************************************************************/
package org.jboss.tools.common.java;

import org.eclipse.jdt.core.IJavaElement;
import org.eclipse.jdt.core.IMember;

/**
 * @author Alexey Kazakov
 */
public interface IJavaReference {

	/**
	 * Returns the closest java member of this element.
	 * For example for local variable (method parameter) it will return the parent method.
	 * @return
	 */
	IMember getSourceMember();

	/**
	 * Returns java element. For java members this method will return the same object as getSourceMember();
	 * @return
	 */
	IJavaElement getSourceElement();
}