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package java.lang.reflect;

/**
 * Member is an interface that represents any member of a class (field or
 * method) or a constructor. You can get information about the declaring
 * class, name or modifiers of the member with this interface.
 *
 * @author John Keiser
 * @author Per Bothner (bothner@cygnus.com)
 * @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu)
 * @see Class
 * @see Field
 * @see Method
 * @see Constructor
 * @since 1.1
 * @status updated to 1.4
 */
public interface Member
{
  /**
   * Represents all members, whether public, private, protected or
   * package-protected, but only which are declared in this class.
   * Used in SecurityManager.checkMemberAccess() to determine the
   * type of members to access.
   * @see SecurityManager#checkMemberAccess(Class, int)
   */
  int DECLARED = 1;

  /**
   * Represents public members only, but includes all inherited members.
   *  Used in SecurityManager.checkMemberAccess() to determine the type of
   * members to access.
   * @see SecurityManager#checkMemberAccess(Class, int)
   */
  int PUBLIC = 0;

  /**
   * Gets the class that declared this member. This is not the class where
   * this method was called, or even the class where this Member object
   * came to life, but the class that declares the member this represents.
   *
   * @return the class that declared this member
   */
  Class getDeclaringClass();

  /**
   * Gets the simple name of this member. This will be a valid Java
   * identifier, with no qualification.
   *
   * @return the name of this member
   */
  String getName();

  /**
   * Gets the modifiers this member uses.  Use the <code>Modifier</code>
   * class to interpret the values.
   *
   * @return an integer representing the modifiers to this Member
   * @see Modifier
   */
  int getModifiers();

  /**
   * Return true if this member is synthetic, meaning that it was
   * created by the compiler and does not appear in the user's
   * source code.
   * @return true if the member is synthetic
   * @since 1.5
   */
  boolean isSynthetic();
}