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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
* 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:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.debug.core.model;
import org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException;
/**
* Supports the retrieval of arbitrary blocks of memory.
*
* @see IMemoryBlock
* @since 2.0
*/
public interface IMemoryBlockRetrieval {
/**
* Returns whether this debug target supports the retrieval
* of memory blocks.
*
* @return whether this debug target supports the retrieval
* of memory blocks
*/
public boolean supportsStorageRetrieval();
/**
* Returns a memory block that starts at the specified
* memory address, with the specified length.
*
* @param startAddress starting address
* @param length length of the memory block in bytes
* @return a memory block that starts at the specified
* memory address, with the specified length
* @exception DebugException if this method fails. Reasons include:
* <ul><li>Failure communicating with the debug target. The DebugException's
* status code contains the underlying exception responsible for
* the failure.</li>
* <li>This debug target does not support memory block retrieval</li>
* <li>The specified address and length are not within valid
* ranges</li>
* </ul>
*/
public IMemoryBlock getMemoryBlock(long startAddress, long length) throws DebugException;
}
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