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* Copyright (c) 2001, 2005 IBM Corporation 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:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jem.java;
/*
*/
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EClassifier;
/**
* Describes a Java Array type
* For multi-dimensional arrays, it is unlikely that the component type will be
* specified directly. This would require instantiating a chain of component types
* such as String[][][][]->String[][][]->String[][]->String[]->String.
*
* The component type relationship will be computed if the finalComponentType
* and array dimensions is specified.
*
* For this reason, the preferred way to create is through the JavaRefFactory factory method:
* createArrayType(JavaClass finalComponentType, int dimensions)
*/
public interface ArrayType extends JavaClass{
/**
* @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation
* @return The value of the ArrayDimensions attribute
*/
int getArrayDimensions();
/**
* @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation
* @param value The new value of the ArrayDimensions attribute
*/
void setArrayDimensions(int value);
/**
* @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation
* @return The ComponentType reference
*/
EClassifier getComponentType();
/**
* Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.jem.java.ArrayType#getComponentType <em>Component Type</em>}' reference.
* <!-- begin-user-doc -->
* <!-- end-user-doc -->
* @param value the new value of the '<em>Component Type</em>' reference.
* @see #getComponentType()
* @generated
*/
void setComponentType(EClassifier value);
/**
* @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation
* Get the final component type for this Array Type.
*
* In order to ensure a unique instance, we will resolve this type using
* reflection. It turns out to be most efficient to just do this by trimming the
* name.
*/
JavaHelpers getFinalComponentType();
/**
* @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation
* Get the component type of this array.
*
* If this is a multi-dimensional array, the component type will be the nested
* array type.
*/
JavaHelpers getComponentTypeAsHelper();
/**
* @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation
* Is this an array of java primitives
*/
boolean isPrimitiveArray();
/**
* @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation
* Set the component type.
*/
void setComponentType(JavaHelpers helperComponentType);
}