/*

* Copyright (c) 2007 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). 

* All rights reserved.

* This component and the accompanying materials are made available

* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"

* which accompanies this distribution, and is available

* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".

*

* Initial Contributors:

* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.

*

* Contributors:

*

* Description:

*

* Interface for types parsed from source files

*

*/

package com.nokia.tracecompiler.source;

/**

 * Interface for types parsed from source files

 * 

 */

public interface ParsedType {

	/**

	 * Checks if parameter is pointer (*) or pointer reference (*&)

	 * 

	 * @return true if pointer, false if not

	 */

	public boolean isPointer();

	/**

	 * Checks if parameter type equals given type

	 * 

	 * @param type

	 *            the type to be checked

	 * @return true if types match

	 */

	public boolean typeEquals(String type);

	/**

	 * Checks if the type has the given qualifier

	 * 

	 * @param qualifier

	 *            the qualifier to be checked

	 * @return true if qualifier exists, false if not

	 */

	public boolean hasQualifier(String qualifier);

}