/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 
 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package net.sourceforge.phpdt.internal.compiler.env;

import net.sourceforge.phpdt.core.compiler.CharOperation;

public interface IBinaryType extends IGenericType {

	char[][] NoInterface = CharOperation.NO_CHAR_CHAR;

	IBinaryNestedType[] NoNestedType = new IBinaryNestedType[0];

	IBinaryField[] NoField = new IBinaryField[0];

	IBinaryMethod[] NoMethod = new IBinaryMethod[0];

	/**
	 * Answer the resolved name of the enclosing type in the class file format
	 * as specified in section 4.2 of the Java 2 VM spec or null if the receiver
	 * is a top level type.
	 * 
	 * For example, java.lang.String is java/lang/String.
	 */

	char[] getEnclosingTypeName();

	/**
	 * Answer the receiver's fields or null if the array is empty.
	 */

	IBinaryField[] getFields();

	/**
	 * Answer the resolved names of the receiver's interfaces in the class file
	 * format as specified in section 4.2 of the Java 2 VM spec or null if the
	 * array is empty.
	 * 
	 * For example, java.lang.String is java/lang/String.
	 */

	char[][] getInterfaceNames();

	/**
	 * Answer the receiver's nested types or null if the array is empty.
	 * 
	 * This nested type info is extracted from the inner class attributes. Ask
	 * the name environment to find a member type using its compound name.
	 */

	// NOTE: The compiler examines the nested type info & ignores the local
	// types
	// so the local types do not have to be included.
	IBinaryNestedType[] getMemberTypes();

	/**
	 * Answer the receiver's methods or null if the array is empty.
	 */

	IBinaryMethod[] getMethods();

	/**
	 * Answer the resolved name of the type in the class file format as
	 * specified in section 4.2 of the Java 2 VM spec.
	 * 
	 * For example, java.lang.String is java/lang/String.
	 */

	char[] getName();

	/**
	 * Answer the resolved name of the receiver's superclass in the class file
	 * format as specified in section 4.2 of the Java 2 VM spec or null if it
	 * does not have one.
	 * 
	 * For example, java.lang.String is java/lang/String.
	 */

	char[] getSuperclassName();

	/**
	 * Answer true if the receiver is an anonymous class. false otherwise
	 */
	boolean isAnonymous();

	/**
	 * Answer true if the receiver is a local class. false otherwise
	 */
	boolean isLocal();

	/**
	 * Answer true if the receiver is a member class. false otherwise
	 */
	boolean isMember();

	/**
	 * Answer the source file attribute, or null if none.
	 * 
	 * For example, "String.java"
	 */

	char[] sourceFileName();

}