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* Copyright (c) 2006, 2010 Wind River Systems, Inc. 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
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*
* Contributors:
* Markus Schorn - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IASTFileLocation;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IASTNode;
/**
* Common interface for names in the index and the AST.
* @since 4.0
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
*/
public interface IName {
/**
* @since 5.2
*/
IName[] EMPTY_ARRAY= {};
/**
* Returns the name without qualification and without template arguments.
* @since 5.1
*/
public char[] getSimpleID();
/**
* @deprecated Using this method is problematic, because for names from the
* index never contain qualification or template arguments, which is different
* for names from the AST.
* Use {@link #getSimpleID()}, instead.
*/
@Deprecated
public char[] toCharArray();
/**
* Is this name being used in the AST as the introduction of a declaration?
* @return boolean
*/
public boolean isDeclaration();
/**
* Is this name being used in the AST as a reference rather than a declaration?
* @return boolean
*/
public boolean isReference();
/**
* Is this name being used in the AST as a reference rather than a declaration?
* @return boolean
*/
public boolean isDefinition();
/**
* Same as {@link IASTNode#getFileLocation()}
* @return the file location of this name.
*/
public IASTFileLocation getFileLocation();
}