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package com.facebook.api;

/**
 * Facebook went interface-happy with their latest release, because someone levied 
 * very questionable criticism that they should extract interfaces for peices of 
 * their code (most of which don't make sense to extract interfaces from), and the 
 * Facebook Java developers weren't clever enough to question the validity of the 
 * criticism and just went ahead with implementing it.  This is one of the more 
 * pointless results of that process.
 */
public interface IFacebookMethod {
    /**
     * @return the name that the Facebook Platform uses to refer to this method.
     */
    public String methodName();
    /**
     * @return the maximum number of params this API call will send (excluding any added automatically by the client).
     */
    public int numParams();
    /**
     * @return true if this API call requires an active session to work
     *         false otherwise
     */
    public boolean requiresSession();
    /**
     * @return the maximum number of params this API call will send, including any that are added automatically by the Facebook client.
     */
    public int numTotalParams();
    /**
     * @return true if this API call accepts a File as a parameter
     *         false otherwise
     */
    public boolean takesFile();
}