ProblemAware.java

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 * Copyright (c) 2009 Borland Software Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
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 * Contributors:
 *     Radek Dvorak - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ocl.util;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.Diagnostic;

/**
 * A mix-in interface indicating that implementations can provide problem
 * diagnostics.
 * 
 * @since 1.3
 * 
 * @author dvorak
 */
public interface ProblemAware {

	/**
	 * Retrieves the problems available on this problem aware object
	 * 
	 * @return the diagnostic object representing the problems or
	 *         <code>null</code> in case that no problems are available.
	 */
	Diagnostic getProblems();
}