platform/core-api/src/com/intellij/psi/PsiPolyVariantReference.java

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package com.intellij.psi;

import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

/**
 * Inherit this interface if you want the reference to resolve to more than one element,
 * or if you want to provide resolve result(s) for a superset of valid resolve cases.
 * e.g. in java references in static context are resolved to nonstatic methods in case
 * there is no valid candidate. isValidResult() in this case should return false
 * for later analysis by highlighting pass.
 *
 * @see PsiPolyVariantReferenceBase
 */
public interface PsiPolyVariantReference extends PsiReference {
  /**
   * Returns the results of resolving the reference.
   *
   * @param incompleteCode if true, the code in the context of which the reference is
   * being resolved is considered incomplete, and the method may return additional
   * invalid results.
   *
   * @return the array of results for resolving the reference.
   */
  @NotNull ResolveResult[] multiResolve(final boolean incompleteCode);
}