/* * Copyright (c) 2011, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * ORACLE PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ package com.sun.source.doctree; /** * A visitor of trees, in the style of the visitor design pattern. * Classes implementing this interface are used to operate * on a tree when the kind of tree is unknown at compile time. * When a visitor is passed to an tree's {@link DocTree#accept * accept} method, the visitXYZ method most applicable * to that tree is invoked. * *

Classes implementing this interface may or may not throw a * {@code NullPointerException} if the additional parameter {@code p} * is {@code null}; see documentation of the implementing class for * details. * *

WARNING: It is possible that methods will be added to * this interface to accommodate new, currently unknown, doc comment * structures added to future versions of the Java™ programming * language. Therefore, visitor classes directly implementing this * interface may be source incompatible with future versions of the * platform. * * @param the return type of this visitor's methods. Use {@link * Void} for visitors that do not need to return results. * @param

the type of the additional parameter to this visitor's * methods. Use {@code Void} for visitors that do not need an * additional parameter. * * @since 1.8 */ @jdk.Exported public interface DocTreeVisitor { R visitAttribute(AttributeTree node, P p); R visitAuthor(AuthorTree node, P p); R visitComment(CommentTree node, P p); R visitDeprecated(DeprecatedTree node, P p); R visitDocComment(DocCommentTree node, P p); R visitDocRoot(DocRootTree node, P p); R visitEndElement(EndElementTree node, P p); R visitEntity(EntityTree node, P p); R visitErroneous(ErroneousTree node, P p); R visitIdentifier(IdentifierTree node, P p); R visitInheritDoc(InheritDocTree node, P p); R visitLink(LinkTree node, P p); R visitLiteral(LiteralTree node, P p); R visitParam(ParamTree node, P p); R visitReference(ReferenceTree node, P p); R visitReturn(ReturnTree node, P p); R visitSee(SeeTree node, P p); R visitSerial(SerialTree node, P p); R visitSerialData(SerialDataTree node, P p); R visitSerialField(SerialFieldTree node, P p); R visitSince(SinceTree node, P p); R visitStartElement(StartElementTree node, P p); R visitText(TextTree node, P p); R visitThrows(ThrowsTree node, P p); R visitUnknownBlockTag(UnknownBlockTagTree node, P p); R visitUnknownInlineTag(UnknownInlineTagTree node, P p); R visitValue(ValueTree node, P p); R visitVersion(VersionTree node, P p); R visitOther(DocTree node, P p); }