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      1 /*
      2  * Copyright (C) 2011 Google Inc.
      3  *
      4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
      5  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
      6  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
      7  *
      8  * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
      9  *
     10  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
     11  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
     12  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
     13  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
     14  * limitations under the License.
     15  */
     16 
     17 package com.google.doclava;
     18 
     19 /**
     20  * Resolvable is an interface for those Java types that cannot resolve, upon first parsing
     21  * the file in which the type is declared, certain types referenced by that file.
     22  *
     23  * <p>This interface provides a standard means of saving {@link Resolution}s that we will
     24  * later resolve once we have parsed every file. This is provided via the
     25  * {@link addResolution(Resolution)} method.
     26  *
     27  * <p>Additionally, This interface provides a standard means of resolving all resolutions
     28  * via the {@link#resolveResolutions()} method.
     29  */
     30 public interface Resolvable {
     31     /**
     32      * Adds a {@link Resolution} that will be resolved at a later time.
     33      * @param resolution The {@link Resolution} to resolve at a later time.
     34      */
     35     public void addResolution(Resolution resolution);
     36 
     37     /**
     38      * Resolves the {@link Resolution}s contained in this {@link Resolvable}.
     39      * @return <tt>true</tt> if all resolutions were resolved.
     40      * <tt>false</tt> if there are still remaining resolutions.
     41      */
     42     public boolean resolveResolutions();
     43 
     44     /**
     45      * Prints the list of {@link Resolution}s that will be resolved at a later time.
     46      */
     47     public void printResolutions();
     48 }
     49