/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2000, 2009 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
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* QNX Software Systems - Initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.model;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IPath;
/**
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
*/
public interface IMacroEntry extends IPathEntry {
/**
* Returns the macro name.
* @return String
*/
String getMacroName();
/**
* Returns the macro value.
* @return String
*/
String getMacroValue();
/**
* Returns an array of inclusion paths affecting the
* resource when looking for files recursively.
* @return IPath
*/
IPath[] getExclusionPatterns();
/**
* Returns a char based representation of the exclusions patterns full path.
*/
public char[][] fullExclusionPatternChars();
/**
* Return the base path.
*/
IPath getBasePath();
/**
* return the base reference
* IMacroEntry
*/
IPath getBaseReference();
}