core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/parser/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/index/IIndexScope.java

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 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
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *    Andrew Ferguson (Symbian) - Initial implementation
 *    Markus Schorn (Wind River Systems)
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.internal.core.index;

import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IScope;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.index.IIndexBinding;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.index.IIndexName;


/**
 * Interface for scopes returned via the index
 * @since 4.0
 */
public interface IIndexScope extends IScope {
	IIndexScope[] EMPTY_INDEX_SCOPE_ARRAY = {};

	/**
	 * Get the binding associated with scope
	 */
	IIndexBinding getScopeBinding();

	/**
	 * Returns the parent scope or <code>null</code> if the scope is nested in the global scope.
	 */
	@Override
	IIndexScope getParent();
	
	/**
	 * Returns the name of this scope.
	 */
	@Override
	IIndexName getScopeName();
}