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A packaging of the IntelliJ Community Edition java-psi-api library. This is release number 1 of trunk branch 142.

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package com.intellij.psi;

import com.intellij.util.IncorrectOperationException;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * Represents a reference in Java code used as part of an expression.
 */
public interface PsiReferenceExpression extends PsiExpression, PsiJavaCodeReferenceElement {
  /**
   * Returns the expression used as the qualifier of the reference (the content up to the
   * last period).
   *
   * @return the qualifier, or null if the reference is not qualified.
   */
  @Nullable
  PsiExpression getQualifierExpression();

  /**
   * Creates an import static statement importing the referenced member
   * from the specified class, or qualifies the reference with the class name if
   * that class is already imported by a regular import statement.
   *
   * @param qualifierClass the class to import.
   * @return the element corresponding to this element in the PSI tree after the modification.
   * @throws IncorrectOperationException if the modification failed for some reason.
   */
  PsiElement bindToElementViaStaticImport(@NotNull PsiClass qualifierClass) throws IncorrectOperationException ;

  void setQualifierExpression(@Nullable PsiExpression newQualifier) throws IncorrectOperationException;
}