org.eclipse.cdt.debug.edc/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/edc/formatter/ITypeContentProvider.java

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package org.eclipse.cdt.debug.edc.formatter;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.debug.service.IExpressions.IExpressionDMContext;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;



/**
 * An interface describing structure for a type
 */
public interface ITypeContentProvider {
	
	/**
	 * Return an iterator starting at a start index generating the
	 * list of IExpressionDMContext for each of the direct children 
	 * of the current object.
	 * @param variable IExpressionDMContext
	 * @return Iterator<IExpressionDMContext> 
	 * @throws CoreException on errors
	 */
	Iterator<IExpressionDMContext> getChildIterator(IExpressionDMContext variable) throws CoreException;
	
	/**
	 * Return the number of children
	 * @param variable IExpressionDMContext
	 * @return int
	 * @throws CoreException on errors
	 * @since 2.0
	 */
	int getChildCount(IExpressionDMContext variable) throws CoreException;
}