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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 <code>visit<i>Xyz</i></code> 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 were required to 60 * also be runnable on Java SE 7. Therefore, default methods 61 * were <em>not</em> 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 * @since 1.6 77 */ 78 public interface ElementVisitor<R, P> { 79 /** 80 * Visits an element. 81 * @param e the element to visit 82 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 83 * @return a visitor-specified result 84 */ 85 R visit(Element e, P p); 86 87 /** 88 * A convenience method equivalent to {@code v.visit(e, null)}. 89 * @param e the element to visit 90 * @return a visitor-specified result 91 */ 92 R visit(Element e); 93 94 /** 95 * Visits a package element. 96 * @param e the element to visit 97 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 98 * @return a visitor-specified result 99 */ 100 R visitPackage(PackageElement e, P p); 101 102 /** 103 * Visits a type element. 104 * @param e the element to visit 105 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 106 * @return a visitor-specified result 107 */ 108 R visitType(TypeElement e, P p); 109 110 /** 111 * Visits a variable element. 112 * @param e the element to visit 113 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 114 * @return a visitor-specified result 115 */ 116 R visitVariable(VariableElement e, P p); 117 118 /** 119 * Visits an executable element. 120 * @param e the element to visit 121 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 122 * @return a visitor-specified result 123 */ 124 R visitExecutable(ExecutableElement e, P p); 125 126 /** 127 * Visits a type parameter element. 128 * @param e the element to visit 129 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 130 * @return a visitor-specified result 131 */ 132 R visitTypeParameter(TypeParameterElement e, P p); 133 134 /** 135 * Visits an unknown kind of element. 136 * This can occur if the language evolves and new kinds 137 * of elements are added to the {@code Element} hierarchy. 138 * 139 * @param e the element to visit 140 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 141 * @return a visitor-specified result 142 * @throws UnknownElementException 143 * a visitor implementation may optionally throw this exception 144 */ 145 R visitUnknown(Element e, P p); 146 147 /** 148 * Visits a module element. 149 * @param e the element to visit 150 * @param p a visitor-specified parameter 151 * @return a visitor-specified result 152 * @since 9 153 */ 154 R visitModule(ModuleElement e, P p); 155 }