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/* JavaFileObject.java -- Abstraction for working with class & source files.
   Copyright (C) 2012  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This file is part of GNU Classpath.

GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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package javax.tools;

import javax.lang.model.element.Modifier;
import javax.lang.model.element.NestingKind;

/**
 * Abstraction for tools working with source and class files.
 * All methods may throw a {@link SecurityException}.  All
 * methods may throw a {@link NullPointerException} if supplied
 * with a {@code null} argument, unless otherwise specified.
 *
 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org)
 * @since 1.6
 */
public interface JavaFileObject
  extends FileObject
{

  /**
   * Kinds of Java files.
   *
   * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org)
   * @since 1.6
   */
  public enum Kind
  {
    /** Java class files, which end in {@code ".class"} */ CLASS (".class"),
    /** Web pages, which end in {@code "*.html"} */ HTML (".html"), 
    /** Any other kind of file. */ OTHER (""), 
    /** Java source files, which end in {@code ".java"} */ SOURCE (".java");

    /**
     * The file extension usually used for files of this
     * type.  If there is no conventional extension for
     * this type, this field is set to the empty string,
     * {@code ""}.
     */
    public final String extension;

    Kind(String extension)
    {
      this.extension = extension;
    }

  }

  /**
   * Returns the kind of this file object.
   *
   * @return the kind.
   */
  Kind getKind();

  /**
   * Checks if this file object represents the specified
   * kind of file for the supplied type.  The class name is
   * a simple name i.e. not qualified.
   *
   * @param simpleName the simple name of the class.
   * @param kind the kind of file.
   * @return true if this object matches the type specified.
   */
  boolean isNameCompatible(String simpleName, Kind kind);

  /**
   * Provides a hint about the access level of this class, based
   * on its modifiers.  If the access level is unknown, or this
   * file object does not represent a class file, {@code null}
   * is returned.
   *
   * @return the access level.
   */
  Modifier getAccessLevel();

  /**
   * Provides a hint about the nesting level of this class.
   * It may return {@link NestingKind#MEMBER} instead of
   * {@link NestingKind#LOCAL} or {@link NestingKind#ANONYMOUS}
   * if it can not determine the exact type of nesting.  If
   * the nesting level is completely unknown, or this file
   * object does not represent a class file, {@code null}
   * is returned.
   *
   * @return the nesting level.
   */
  NestingKind getNestingKind();

}