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 * 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;

public interface ISourceMethod extends IGenericMethod {

	/**
	 * Answer the unresolved names of the argument types or null if the array is
	 * empty.
	 * 
	 * A name is a simple name or a qualified, dot separated name. For example,
	 * Hashtable or java.util.Hashtable.
	 */

	char[][] getArgumentTypeNames();

	/**
	 * Answer the source end position of the method's declaration.
	 */

	int getDeclarationSourceEnd();

	/**
	 * Answer the source start position of the method's declaration.
	 */

	int getDeclarationSourceStart();

	/**
	 * Answer the unresolved names of the exception types or null if the array
	 * is empty.
	 * 
	 * A name is a simple name or a qualified, dot separated name. For example,
	 * Hashtable or java.util.Hashtable.
	 */

	char[][] getExceptionTypeNames();

	/**
	 * Answer the source end position of the method's selector.
	 */

	int getNameSourceEnd();

	/**
	 * Answer the source start position of the method's selector.
	 */

	int getNameSourceStart();

	/**
	 * Answer the unresolved name of the return type or null if receiver is a
	 * constructor or clinit.
	 * 
	 * The name is a simple name or a qualified, dot separated name. For
	 * example, Hashtable or java.util.Hashtable.
	 */

	char[] getReturnTypeName();
}
