src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/actions/ActionInput.java

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package com.google.devtools.build.lib.actions;

import com.google.devtools.build.lib.vfs.PathFragment;

/**
 * Represents an input file to a build action, with an appropriate relative path.
 *
 * <p>Artifact is the only notable implementer of the interface, but the interface remains because
 * 1) some Google specific rules ship files that could be Artifacts to remote execution by
 * instantiating ad-hoc derived classes of ActionInput. 2) historically, Google C++ rules allow
 * underspecified C++ builds. For that case, we have extra logic to guess the undeclared header
 * inclusions (eg. computed inclusions). The extra logic lives in a file that is not needed for
 * remote execution, but is a dependency, and it is inserted as a non-Artifact ActionInput.
 */
public interface ActionInput extends HasExecPathString {

  /** Same as {@link #getExecPathString}, but returns a {@link PathFragment}. */
  PathFragment getExecPath();

  /** The input is a directory. */
  boolean isDirectory();

  /** The input is a symlink that is supposed to stay un-dereferenced. */
  boolean isSymlink();

  /**
   * Returns if this input's file system path includes a digest of its content. See {@link
   * com.google.devtools.build.lib.analysis.config.BuildConfigurationValue#useContentBasedOutputPaths}.
   */
  default boolean contentBasedPath() {
    return false;
  }
}