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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2004 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 org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.lookup;
+
+public abstract class Binding implements BindingIds, CompilerModifiers, ProblemReasons {
+ /* API
+ * Answer the receiver's binding type from Binding.BindingID.
+ *
+ * Note: Do NOT expect this to be used very often... only in switch statements with
+ * more than 2 possible choices.
+ */
+ public abstract int bindingType();
+ /* API
+ * Answer true if the receiver is not a problem binding
+ */
+
+ public final boolean isValidBinding() {
+ return problemId() == NoError;
+ }
+ /* API
+ * Answer the problem id associated with the receiver.
+ * NoError if the receiver is a valid binding.
+ */
+
+ public int problemId() {
+ return NoError;
+ }
+ /* Answer a printable representation of the receiver.
+ */
+ public abstract char[] readableName();
+
+ /* Shorter printable representation of the receiver (no qualified type)
+ */
+ public char[] shortReadableName(){
+ return readableName();
+ }
+}