Package org.faktorips.runtime.model.type

Class TypeHierarchyVisitor

java.lang.Object

org.faktorips.runtime.model.type.TypeHierarchyVisitor

public abstract class TypeHierarchyVisitor
extends Object

A visitor that allows to implement functions on a type's hierarchy. As we don't have an explicit type hierarchy class, not the typical implementation with accept/visit methods, but still a visitor.

Author:

Jan Ortmann

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
TypeHierarchyVisitor()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	visitHierarchy(Type type)	Visits the given type and all it's super types.
abstract boolean	visitType(Type type)	Visits the given type.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

TypeHierarchyVisitor

public TypeHierarchyVisitor()

Method Details

visitHierarchy

public void visitHierarchy(Type type)

Visits the given type and all it's super types. Does nothing if the type is null .

visitType

public abstract boolean visitType(Type type)

Visits the given type.

Parameters:

type - The type to visit.

Returns:

true if the visitor should continue to visit the supertypes, false if not.