/******************************************************************************* * 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.core; /** * Represents a field declared in a type. *
* This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients. *
*/ public interface IField extends IMember { /** * Returns the constant value associated with this field * ornull
if this field has none.
* Returns either a subclass of Number
, or a String
,
* depending on the type of the field.
* For example, if the field is of type short
, this returns
* a Short
.
*
* @return the constant value associated with this field or null
if this field has none.
* @exception JavaModelException if this element does not exist or if an
* exception occurs while accessing its corresponding resource
*/
public Object getConstant() throws JavaModelException;
/**
* Returns the simple name of this field.
* @return the simple name of this field.
*/
String getElementName();
/**
* Returns the type signature of this field.
*
* @see Signature
* @return the type signature of this field.
* @exception JavaModelException if this element does not exist or if an
* exception occurs while accessing its corresponding resource
*/
String getTypeSignature() throws JavaModelException;
}