| /******************************************************************************* |
| * 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.jdt.debug.core; |
| |
| |
| import org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException; |
| import org.eclipse.debug.core.model.IValue; |
| |
| /** |
| * An object, primitive data type, or array, on a Java virtual machine. |
| * <p> |
| * Clients are not intended to implement this interface. |
| * </p> |
| * @see org.eclipse.debug.core.model.IValue |
| */ |
| public interface IJavaValue extends IValue { |
| /** |
| * Returns the JNI-style signature for the type of this |
| * value, or <code>null</code> if the value is <code>null</code>. |
| * |
| * @return signature, or <code>null</code> if signature is <code>null</code> |
| * @exception DebugException if this method fails. Reasons include: |
| * <ul><li>Failure communicating with the VM. The DebugException's |
| * status code contains the underlying exception responsible for |
| * the failure.</li> |
| * <li>The type associated with the signature is not yet loaded</li></ul> |
| */ |
| public String getSignature() throws DebugException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the type of this value, or <code>null</code> |
| * if this value represents the <code>null</code> value |
| * |
| * @return the type of this value, or <code>null</code> |
| * if this value represents the <code>null</code> value |
| * |
| * @since 2.0 |
| */ |
| public IJavaType getJavaType() throws DebugException; |
| |
| } |
| |
| |