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Java library to automate the analysis of Android heap dumps.

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/**
 * ****************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2008 SAP AG.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 * SAP AG - initial API and implementation
 * *****************************************************************************
 */
package org.eclipse.mat.snapshot.model;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Interface for a plain vanilla object instance in the heap dump.
 *
 * @noimplement
 */
public interface IInstance extends IObject {
  /**
   * Returns all fields of the object.
   * 
   * Fields are ordered in such a way, that first fields defined in the
   * current class and then fields of the super class and its super classes
   * are returned. This order is important to know, if a class declares a
   * field by the same name as the class it inherits from.
   */
  public List getFields();

  /**
   * Returns the field identified by the name.
   * 
   * If declares a member variable by the same name as the parent class does,
   * then the result of this method is undefined.
   */
  public Field getField(String name);
}