/*
 * Copyright (C) 2007 The Android Open Source Project
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 */

package com.android.dx.rop.type;

import com.android.dx.util.ToHuman;

/**
 * Object which has an associated type, possibly itself.
 */
public interface TypeBearer
        extends ToHuman {
    /**
     * Gets the type associated with this instance.
     *
     * @return non-null; the type
     */
    public Type getType();

    /**
     * Gets the frame type corresponding to this type. This method returns
     * <code>this</code>, except if {@link Type#isIntlike} on the underlying
     * type returns <code>true</code> but the underlying type is not in
     * fact {@link Type#INT}, in which case this method returns an instance
     * whose underlying type <i>is</i> <code>INT</code>.
     *
     * @return non-null; the frame type for this instance
     */
    public TypeBearer getFrameType();

    /**
     * Gets the basic type corresponding to this instance.
     *
     * @return the basic type; one of the <code>BT_*</code> constants
     * defined by {@link Type}
     */
    public int getBasicType();

    /**
     * Gets the basic type corresponding to this instance's frame type. This
     * is equivalent to <code>getFrameType().getBasicType()</code>, and
     * is the same as calling <code>getFrameType()</code> unless this
     * instance is an int-like type, in which case this method returns
     * <code>BT_INT</code>.
     * 
     * @see #getBasicType
     * @see #getFrameType
     * 
     * @return the basic frame type; one of the <code>BT_*</code> constants
     * defined by {@link Type}
     */
    public int getBasicFrameType();

    /**
     * Returns whether this instance represents a constant value.
     * 
     * @return <code>true</code> if this instance represents a constant value
     * and <code>false</code> if not
     */
    public boolean isConstant();
}