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package org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.ui.dialogs;
/**
* An interfaces to give access to the type presented in type
* selection dialogs like the open type dialog.
* <p>
* Please note that <code>ITypeInfoRequestor</code> objects <strong>don't
* </strong> have value semantic. The state of the object might change over
* time especially since objects are reused for different call backs.
* </p>
* <p>
* This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
* </p>
*
* Provisional API: This class/interface is part of an interim API that is still under development and expected to
* change significantly before reaching stability. It is being made available at this early stage to solicit feedback
* from pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API will almost certainly be broken
* (repeatedly) as the API evolves.
*/
public interface ITypeInfoRequestor {
/**
* Returns the type's modifiers. The modifiers can be
* inspected using the class {@link org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.core.Flags}.
*
* @return the type's modifiers
*/
public int getModifiers();
/**
* Returns the type name.
*
* @return the info's type name.
*/
public String getTypeName();
/**
* Returns the package name.
*
* @return the info's package name.
*/
public String getPackageName();
/**
* Returns a dot separated string of the enclosing types or an
* empty string if the type is a top level type.
*
* @return a dot separated string of the enclosing types
*/
public String getEnclosingName();
}