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* Copyright (c) 2000, 2008 IBM Corporation and others.
*
* This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.aspectj.org.eclipse.jdt.core;
/**
* Common protocol for Java elements that contain other Java elements.
*
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
*/
public interface IParent {
/**
* Returns the immediate children of this element.
* Unless otherwise specified by the implementing element,
* the children are in no particular order.
*
* @exception JavaModelException if this element does not exist or if an
* exception occurs while accessing its corresponding resource
* @return the immediate children of this element
*/
IJavaElement[] getChildren() throws JavaModelException;
/**
* Returns whether this element has one or more immediate children.
* This is a convenience method, and may be more efficient than
* testing whether getChildren
is an empty array.
*
* @exception JavaModelException if this element does not exist or if an
* exception occurs while accessing its corresponding resource
* @return true if the immediate children of this element, false otherwise
*/
boolean hasChildren() throws JavaModelException;
}