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*
* Contributors:
* Intel Corporation - Initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.envvar;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.settings.model.ICConfigurationDescription;
/**
*
* this interface represent the environment variable provider - the main entry-point
* to be used for querying the build environment
*
* @since 3.0
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
*/
public interface IEnvironmentVariableManager{
/**
*
*
* @return the reference to the IBuildEnvironmentVariable interface representing
* the variable of a given name
* @param name environment variable name
* if environment variable names are case insensitive in the current OS,
* the environment variable provider will query the getVariable method of suppliers always
* passing it the upper-case variable name not depending on the case of the variableName
* passed to the IEnvironmentVariableProvider.getVariable() method. This will prevent the
* supplier from answering different values for the same variable given the names that differ
* only by case. E.g. if the current OS does not support case sensitive variables both of the
* calls below:
*
* provider.getVariable("FOO",level,includeParentContexts);
* provider.getVariable("foo",level,includeParentContexts);
*
* will result in asking suppliers for the "FOO" variable
*/
public IEnvironmentVariable getVariable(String name, ICConfigurationDescription cfg, boolean resolveMacros);
/**
*
* if environment variable names are case insensitive in the current OS,
* the environment variable provider will remove the duplicates of the variables if their names
* differ only by case
*
* @return the array of IBuildEnvironmentVariable that represents the environment variables
*/
public IEnvironmentVariable[] getVariables(ICConfigurationDescription cfg, boolean resolveMacros);
/**
*
* @return the String representing default system delimiter. That is the ":" for Unix-like
* systems and the ";" for Win32 systems. This method will be used by the
* tool-integrator provided variable supplier e.g. in order to concatenate the list of paths into the
* environment variable, etc.
*/
public String getDefaultDelimiter();
/**
* @return true if the OS supports case sensitive variables (Unix-like systems) or false
* if it does not (Win32 systems)
*/
public boolean isVariableCaseSensitive();
public IContributedEnvironment getContributedEnvironment();
}