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 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
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 * Contributors: 
 * IBM - Initial API and implementation
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package org.eclipse.cdt.core.index;

/**
 * @author Bogdan Gheorghe
 * 
 * IIndexStorage must be implemented by all indexStorage providers
 */
public interface IIndexStorage {
	
	//Indexer that use this indexer storage
	public ICDTIndexer[] getIndexers();
	
	//Get path variables that are used 
	public String[] getPathVariables();
	public void resolvePathVariables();
	
	//Merge functionality for the storage
	public void merge();
	public boolean canMergeWith(IIndexStorage storage);
}