bundles/org.eclipse.team.cvs.core/src/org/eclipse/team/internal/ccvs/core/ICVSRemoteFolder.java

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package org.eclipse.team.internal.ccvs.core;

 
import org.eclipse.team.internal.ccvs.core.client.Command.LocalOption;

 /**
 * This interface represents a remote folder in a repository. It provides
 * access to the members (remote files and folders) of a remote folder
 * 
 * Clients are not expected to implement this interface.
 */
public interface ICVSRemoteFolder extends ICVSRemoteResource, ICVSFolder {
	
	// This constant is the name of the folder at the root of a repository
	public static final String REPOSITORY_ROOT_FOLDER_NAME = ""; //$NON-NLS-1$
	
	/**
	 * Return the context of this handle. The returned tag can be a branch or
	 * version tag.
	 */
	public CVSTag getTag();
	
	/**
	 * Return the local options that are used to determine how memebers are retrieved.
	 * 
	 * Interesting options are:
	 *     Checkout.ALIAS
	 *     Command.DO_NOT_RECURSE
	 */
	public LocalOption[] getLocalOptions();
	
	/**
	 * Indicates whether the remote folder can be expanded. 
	 * 
	 * This is a temporary (hopefully) means of indicating certain types of folders 
	 * (i.e. module definitions) that are not expandable due to lack of mdoule expansion.
	 * They can still be checked out.
	 */
	public boolean isExpandable();
	
	/**
	 * Indicates whether the remote folder is an actual remote folder is a
	 * module defined in the CVSROOT/modules file (or some other module
	 * definition).
	 */
	public boolean isDefinedModule();
}