repo/org.ibex.tool/src/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/Binding.java

   1 /*******************************************************************************
   2  * Copyright (c) 2000, 2004 IBM Corporation and others.
   3  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
   4  * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
   5  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
   6  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
   7  *
   8  * Contributors:
   9  *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  10  *******************************************************************************/
  11 package org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.lookup;
  12
  13 public abstract class Binding implements BindingIds, CompilerModifiers, ProblemReasons {
  14         /* API
  15         * Answer the receiver's binding type from Binding.BindingID.
  16         *
  17         * Note: Do NOT expect this to be used very often... only in switch statements with
  18         * more than 2 possible choices.
  19         */
  20         public abstract int bindingType();
  21         /* API
  22         * Answer true if the receiver is not a problem binding
  23         */
  24
  25         public final boolean isValidBinding() {
  26                 return problemId() == NoError;
  27         }
  28         /* API
  29         * Answer the problem id associated with the receiver.
  30         * NoError if the receiver is a valid binding.
  31         */
  32
  33         public int problemId() {
  34                 return NoError;
  35         }
  36         /* Answer a printable representation of the receiver.
  37         */
  38         public abstract char[] readableName();
  39
  40         /* Shorter printable representation of the receiver (no qualified type)
  41          */
  42         public char[] shortReadableName(){
  43                 return readableName();
  44         }
  45 }