| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2007, 2008 Symbian Software Systems and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * Andrew Ferguson (Symbian) - Initial implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.cdt.internal.core.index; |
| |
| public interface IIndexFragmentBindingComparator { |
| /** |
| * Compares to index fragment bindings, or returns {@link Integer#MIN_VALUE} if the comparator is |
| * not capable of comparing the two objects because of their run-time type. |
| * <p> |
| * Compares two index fragment bindings using the following scheme: |
| * <ul> |
| * <li>Compares the fully qualified names, by pair-wise lexicographic comparison |
| * of individual name components, starting with the innermost scoped name. If |
| * all pair-wise comparisons are equal, then the comparison routine continues, otherwise returning |
| * <ul> |
| * <li> -1 if the first differing component name of <em>a</em> was < the pairwise equivalent from <em>b</em> |
| * <li> 1 if the first differing component name of <em>a</em> was > the pairwise equivalent from <em>b</em> |
| * </ul> In case binding <em>a</em> has fewer component names than binding <em>b</em> then |
| * -1 is returned, otherwise 1 is returned. |
| * <li>Compares a course-grained binding type dependent on language. For C/C++ the |
| * type comparison is performed by comparing the bindings associated constant as defined in |
| * IIndexCNodeConstants or IIndexCPPNodeConstants. If these are equal comparison continues |
| * <li>Compares fine grained binding information dependent on the binding language. For C++ the |
| * type comparison is relevant for binding types that are further differentiated by type signatures via |
| * {@link IndexCPPSignatureUtil} |
| * </ul> |
| * @param a a non null {@link IIndexFragmentBinding} |
| * @param b a non null {@link IIndexFragmentBinding} |
| * @return -1, 0, 1 or Integer.MIN_VALUE if this comparator cannot compare the two |
| */ |
| public int compare(IIndexFragmentBinding a, IIndexFragmentBinding b); |
| } |