/*******************************************************************************
* 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
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Markus Schorn - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.index;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IBinding;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
/**
* Represents the semantics of a name in the index.
* @since 4.0
*
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
*/
public interface IIndexBinding extends IBinding {
IIndexBinding[] EMPTY_INDEX_BINDING_ARRAY = new IIndexBinding[0];
/**
* Returns the qualified name of this binding as array of strings.
*/
String[] getQualifiedName();
/**
* Returns whether the scope of the binding is file-local. A file local
* binding is private to an index and should not be adapted to a binding
* in another index.
*/
boolean isFileLocal() throws CoreException;
/**
* Returns the file this binding is local to, or <code>null</code> for global
* bindings.
* A binding is local if a file has a separate instances of the binding. This
* is used to model static files, static variables.
*/
IIndexFile getLocalToFile() throws CoreException;
/**
* @since 5.1
*/
@Override
IIndexBinding getOwner();
}