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* Copyright (c) 2000, 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
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.stringsubstitution;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
/**
* Resolves the value for a string variable. A variable extension contributes
* a resolver for context sensitive variables, which must implement this
* interface.
*
* @since 3.0
*/
public interface IStringVariableResolver {
/**
* Resolves and returns a value for the specified variable when referenced
* with the given argument, possibly <code>null</code>
*
* @param variable variable to resolve a value for
* @param argument argument present in expression or <code>null</code> if none
* @return variable value, possibly <code>null</code>
* @throws CoreException if unable to resolve a value for the given variable
*/
public String resolveValue(IStringVariable variable, String argument) throws CoreException;
}