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

import com.google.devtools.build.lib.packages.License.DistributionType;
import com.google.devtools.build.lib.skylarkbuildapi.TargetApi;
import com.google.devtools.build.lib.syntax.Location;
import java.util.Set;
import javax.annotation.Nullable;

/**
 * A node in the build dependency graph, identified by a Label.
 *
 * <p>This StarlarkBuiltin does not contain any documentation since Starlark's Target type refers to
 * TransitiveInfoCollection.class, which contains the appropriate documentation.
 */
public interface Target extends TargetApi {

  /**
   *  Returns the Package to which this rule belongs.
   */
  Package getPackage();

  /**
   * Returns a string describing this kind of target: e.g. "cc_library rule",
   * "source file", "generated file".
   */
  String getTargetKind();

  /**
   * Returns the rule associated with this target, if any.
   *
   * If this is a Rule, returns itself; it this is an OutputFile, returns its
   * generating rule; if this is an input file, returns null.
   */
  @Nullable
  Rule getAssociatedRule();

  /**
   * Returns the license associated with this target.
   */
  License getLicense();

  /**
   * Returns the place where the target was defined.
   *
   * <p>The location of a rule instance is generally its "generator location", the location of the
   * outermost call on the stack, which is in the BUILD file. However, the location of a source file
   * target created by an explicit call to {@code exports_files} is the location of the innermost
   * call, which may be in an arbitrary .bzl file and is not necessarily beneath the package's
   * directory. The inconsistency seems unintentional.
   */
  Location getLocation();

  /**
   * Returns the set of distribution types associated with this target.
   */
  Set<DistributionType> getDistributions();

  /**
   * Returns the visibility of this target.
   */
  RuleVisibility getVisibility();

  /**
   * Returns whether this target type can be configured (e.g. accepts non-null configurations).
   */
  boolean isConfigurable();
}