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 * 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:
 *     Oracle - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jpt.core.context;

import org.eclipse.jpt.core.JpaNode;

/**
 * 
 * 
 * Provisional API: This interface is part of an interim API that is still
 * under development and expected to change significantly before reaching
 * stability. It is available at this early stage to solicit feedback from
 * pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API
 * will almost certainly be broken (repeatedly) as the API evolves.
 */
public interface IdClassHolder
	extends JpaNode
{
	String getIdClass();
	
	void setIdClass(String value);
	
		String ID_CLASS_PROPERTY = "idClass"; //$NON-NLS-1$
	
	/**
	 * Return the char to be used for browsing or creating the id class IType.
	 * @see org.eclipse.jdt.core.IType#getFullyQualifiedName(char)
	 */
	char getIdClassEnclosingTypeSeparator();
	
}