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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2004 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.memory;
import org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException;
import org.eclipse.debug.core.model.IDebugElement;
import org.eclipse.debug.core.model.IMemoryBlockRetrieval;
/**
* Extended capabilites for memory block retrieval.
* @since 3.0
*/
public interface IExtendedMemoryBlockRetrieval extends IMemoryBlockRetrieval {
/**
* Retrieves a memory block.
*
* @param expression - expression to be evalutated to an address, evaluation context can be retrieved
* from the selected debug element
* @param selected - selected debug element from Debug View
* @return
* @throws DebugException
*/
public IExtendedMemoryBlock getExtendedMemoryBlock(String expression, IDebugElement selected) throws DebugException;
/**
* @return the string to be used in place of this memory content when bytes
* are not available.
* Return null if the byte is available.
*/
public String getPaddedString();
}