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Classes implementing this interface are used to operate 33 * on an element when the kind of element is unknown at compile time. 34 * When a visitor is passed to an element's {@link Element#accept 35 * accept} method, the <tt>visit<i>XYZ</i></tt> method most applicable 36 * to that element is invoked. 37 * 38 * <p> Classes implementing this interface may or may not throw a 39 * {@code NullPointerException} if the additional parameter {@code p} 40 * is {@code null}; see documentation of the implementing class for 41 * details. 42 * 43 * <p> <b>WARNING:</b> It is possible that methods will be added to 44 * this interface to accommodate new, currently unknown, language 45 * structures added to future versions of the Java™ programming 46 * language. Therefore, visitor classes directly implementing this 47 * interface may be source incompatible with future versions of the 48 * platform. To avoid this source incompatibility, visitor 49 * implementations are encouraged to instead extend the appropriate 50 * abstract visitor class that implements this interface. However, an 51 * API should generally use this visitor interface as the type for 52 * parameters, return type, etc. rather than one of the abstract 53 * classes. 54 * 55 * <p>Note that methods to accommodate new language constructs could 56 * be added in a source <em>compatible</em> way if they were added as 57 * <em>default methods</em>. However, default methods are only 58 * available on Java SE 8 and higher releases and the {@code 59 * javax.lang.model.*} packages bundled in Java SE 8 are required to 60 * also be runnable on Java SE 7. Therefore, default methods 61 * <em>cannot</em> be used when extending {@code javax.lang.model.*} 62 * to cover Java SE 8 language features. However, default methods may 63 * be used in subsequent revisions of the {@code javax.lang.model.*} 64 * packages that are only required to run on Java SE 8 and higher 65 * platform versions. 66 * 67 * @param <R> the return type of this visitor's methods. Use {@link 68 * Void} for visitors that do not need to return results. 69 * @param <P> the type of the additional parameter to this visitor's 70 * methods. Use {@code Void} for visitors that do not need an 71 * additional parameter. 72 * 73 * @author Joseph D. Darcy 74 * @author Scott Seligman 75 * @author Peter von der Ahé 76 * @see AbstractElementVisitor6 77 * @see AbstractElementVisitor7 78 * @since 1.6 79 */ 80 public interface ElementVisitor<R, P> { 81 /** 82 * Visits an element. 83 * @param e the element to visit 84 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 85 * @return a visitor-specified result 86 */ 87 R visit(Element e, P p); 88 89 /** 90 * A convenience method equivalent to {@code v.visit(e, null)}. 91 * @param e the element to visit 92 * @return a visitor-specified result 93 */ 94 R visit(Element e); 95 96 /** 97 * Visits a package element. 98 * @param e the element to visit 99 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 100 * @return a visitor-specified result 101 */ 102 R visitPackage(PackageElement e, P p); 103 104 /** 105 * Visits a type element. 106 * @param e the element to visit 107 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 108 * @return a visitor-specified result 109 */ 110 R visitType(TypeElement e, P p); 111 112 /** 113 * Visits a variable element. 114 * @param e the element to visit 115 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 116 * @return a visitor-specified result 117 */ 118 R visitVariable(VariableElement e, P p); 119 120 /** 121 * Visits an executable element. 122 * @param e the element to visit 123 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 124 * @return a visitor-specified result 125 */ 126 R visitExecutable(ExecutableElement e, P p); 127 128 /** 129 * Visits a type parameter element. 130 * @param e the element to visit 131 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 132 * @return a visitor-specified result 133 */ 134 R visitTypeParameter(TypeParameterElement e, P p); 135 136 /** 137 * Visits an unknown kind of element. 138 * This can occur if the language evolves and new kinds 139 * of elements are added to the {@code Element} hierarchy. 140 * 141 * @param e the element to visit 142 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 143 * @return a visitor-specified result 144 * @throws UnknownElementException 145 * a visitor implementation may optionally throw this exception 146 */ 147 R visitUnknown(Element e, P p); 148 }