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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2012 NumberFour AG
*
* 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:
* NumberFour AG - initial API and Implementation (Alex Panchenko)
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.dltk.javascript.typeinfo;
import org.eclipse.dltk.compiler.problem.IValidationStatus;
import org.eclipse.dltk.compiler.problem.ValidationStatus;
import org.eclipse.dltk.javascript.typeinference.IValueReference;
/**
* Optional interface which can be implemented by {@link IRType} instance to
* allow checking assignments from the "raw" type inferencer data.
*/
public interface IRTypeExtension {
/**
* Determines if this type could be assigned from the specified value.
*
* <p>
* All the types implementing {@link IValidationStatus} marker interface
* could be used as return value. {@link TypeCompatibility} constants is an
* easy, another way is {@link ValidationStatus} which allows to specify
* problem message and id. <code>null</code> is treated as successful
* result.
* </p>
*
* @see TypeCompatibility
* @see ValidationStatus
*/
IValidationStatus isAssignableFrom(IValueReference argument);
}