plugins/org.eclipse.jem.proxy/proxy/org/eclipse/jem/internal/proxy/core/IArrayBeanTypeProxy.java

package org.eclipse.jem.internal.proxy.core;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c)  2001, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 
 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
/*
 *  $RCSfile: IArrayBeanTypeProxy.java,v $
 *  $Revision: 1.1 $  $Date: 2003/10/27 17:22:23 $ 
 */


/**
 * A Proxy for an array type.
 */

public interface IArrayBeanTypeProxy extends IBeanTypeProxy {
	/**
	 * getComponentType: Get the component type of this array.
	 * e.g. (new Object[3]).getClass().getComponentType() will
	 * return "java.lang.Object".
	 * and (new Object[3][2][1]).getClass().getComponentType() will
	 * return "Object[][]";
	 */
	public IBeanTypeProxy getComponentType();
	/**
	 * Return the final type, i.e. the final non-array type.
	 * i.e. int[][] will return int.
	 */
	public IBeanTypeProxy getFinalComponentType();	
	/**
	 * Return the number of dimensions for this type.
	 * i.e. int [][] will return 2.
	 */
	public int getDimensions();
}