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package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.usage.transmogrify;
/**
* implemented by signatures of methods
* @see net.sourceforge.transmogrify.symtab.MethodSignature
* @see net.sourceforge.transmogrify.symtab.ExternalSignature
*/
public interface ISignature {
public IClass[] getParameters();
/**
* Whether this method signature is compatible with the signature of the
* argument. That is to say, each type for this signature are subclasses,
* subinterfaces, or implement the interface for each corresponding type
* in the argument signature.
*
* @param signature the signature of the method definition being compared
* @return whether the signatures are compatible
*/
public boolean isCompatibleWith(ISignature signature);
/**
* if both signature has the same set of parameters
* @param signature signature to be compared
* @return <code>true</code> if the two set of parameters are equal
* <code>false</code> otherwise
*/
public boolean isSame(ISignature signature);
}