org.faktorips.runtime.modeltype
Class TypeHierarchyVisitor

java.lang.Object
  org.faktorips.runtime.modeltype.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 explizit type hierarchy class, not the typicall implementation with accept/visit methods, but still a visitor.

Author:

Jan Ortmann

Constructor Summary

TypeHierarchyVisitor()

Method Summary

void	visitHierarchy(IModelType type) Visits the given type and all it's super types.
abstract boolean	visitType(IModelType type) Visits the given type.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

TypeHierarchyVisitor

public TypeHierarchyVisitor()

Method Detail

visitHierarchy

public void visitHierarchy(IModelType type)

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

visitType

public abstract boolean visitType(IModelType 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.