content: /*
   * Copyright (C) 2007 The Android Open Source Project
   *
   * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   * You may obtain a copy of the License at
   *
   *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
   *
   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
   * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
   * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
   * limitations under the License.
   */
  
  package com.taobao.android.dx.rop.type;
  
  import com.taobao.android.dx.util.ToHuman;
  
  /**
   * Object which has an associated type, possibly itself.
   */
  public interface TypeBearer
          extends ToHuman {
      /**
       * Gets the type associated with this instance.
       *
       * @return {@code non-null;} the type
       */
      public Type getType();
  
      /**
       * Gets the frame type corresponding to this type. This method returns
       * {@code this}, except if {@link Type#isIntlike} on the underlying
       * type returns {@code true} but the underlying type is not in
       * fact {@link Type#INT}, in which case this method returns an instance
       * whose underlying type <i>is</i> {@code INT}.
       *
       * @return {@code non-null;} the frame type for this instance
       */
      public TypeBearer getFrameType();
  
      /**
       * Gets the basic type corresponding to this instance.
       *
       * @return the basic type; one of the {@code BT_*} constants
       * defined by {@link Type}
       */
      public int getBasicType();
  
      /**
       * Gets the basic type corresponding to this instance's frame type. This
       * is equivalent to {@code getFrameType().getBasicType()}, and
       * is the same as calling {@code getFrameType()} unless this
       * instance is an int-like type, in which case this method returns
       * {@code BT_INT}.
       *
       * @see #getBasicType
       * @see #getFrameType
       *
       * @return the basic frame type; one of the {@code BT_*} constants
       * defined by {@link Type}
       */
      public int getBasicFrameType();
  
      /**
       * Returns whether this instance represents a constant value.
       *
       * @return {@code true} if this instance represents a constant value
       * and {@code false} if not
       */
      public boolean isConstant();
  }
  