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 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
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 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package net.sourceforge.phpdt.internal.compiler.env;

public interface ISourceField extends IGenericField {
	/**
	 * Answer the source end position of the field's declaration.
	 */
	int getDeclarationSourceEnd();

	/**
	 * Answer the source start position of the field's declaration.
	 */
	int getDeclarationSourceStart();

	/**
	 * Answer the initialization source for this constant field. Answer null if
	 * the field is not a constant or if it has no initialization.
	 */
	char[] getInitializationSource();

	/**
	 * Answer the source end position of the field's name.
	 */
	int getNameSourceEnd();

	/**
	 * Answer the source start position of the field's name.
	 */
	int getNameSourceStart();

	/**
	 * Answer the type name of the field.
	 * 
	 * The name is a simple name or a qualified, dot separated name. For
	 * example, Hashtable or java.util.Hashtable.
	 */
	char[] getTypeName();
}
