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*
* Contributors:
* IBM - Initial API and implementation
* Markus Schorn (Wind River Systems)
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.cpp;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IType;
/**
* This interface represents an instantiation of a class or function template.
* An instantiated template is a specialization of that template.
*
* An instance of a class template will also implement ICPPClassType and similarly
* a function template instance will also implement ICPPFunction (or even ICPPMethod
* or ICPPConstructor as appropriate)
*
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
*/
public interface ICPPTemplateInstance extends ICPPSpecialization {
/**
* @since 5.1
*/
ICPPTemplateInstance[] EMPTY_TEMPLATE_INSTANCE_ARRAY = {};
/**
* get the template that this was instantiated from
*/
public ICPPTemplateDefinition getTemplateDefinition();
/**
* Returns the template arguments of this instance.
* @since 5.1
*/
public ICPPTemplateArgument[] getTemplateArguments();
/**
* Explicit specializations are modeled as instances of a template.
* Returns <code>true</code> if this binding is an explicit specialization.
* @since 5.2
*/
public boolean isExplicitSpecialization();
/**
* @deprecated Replaced by {@link #getTemplateArguments()}.
*/
@Deprecated
public IType[] getArguments();
}