/* * Copyright (c) 2011, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * ORACLE PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ package javax.lang.model.util; import javax.annotation.processing.SupportedSourceVersion; import javax.lang.model.SourceVersion; import static javax.lang.model.SourceVersion.*; /** * A skeletal visitor of program elements with default behavior * appropriate for the {@link SourceVersion#RELEASE_8 RELEASE_8} * source version. * *

WARNING: The {@code ElementVisitor} interface * implemented by this class may have methods added to it in the * future to accommodate new, currently unknown, language structures * added to future versions of the Java™ programming language. * Therefore, methods whose names begin with {@code "visit"} may be * added to this class in the future; to avoid incompatibilities, * classes which extend this class should not declare any instance * methods with names beginning with {@code "visit"}. * *

When such a new visit method is added, the default * implementation in this class will be to call the {@link * #visitUnknown visitUnknown} method. A new abstract element visitor * class will also be introduced to correspond to the new language * level; this visitor will have different default behavior for the * visit method in question. When the new visitor is introduced, all * or portions of this visitor may be deprecated. * *

Note that adding a default implementation of a new visit method * in a visitor class will occur instead of adding a default * method directly in the visitor interface since a Java SE 8 * language feature cannot be used to this version of the API since * this version is required to be runnable on Java SE 7 * implementations. Future versions of the API that are only required * to run on Java SE 8 and later may take advantage of default methods * in this situation. * * @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. * * @see AbstractElementVisitor6 * @see AbstractElementVisitor7 * @since 1.8 */ @SupportedSourceVersion(RELEASE_8) public abstract class AbstractElementVisitor8 extends AbstractElementVisitor7 { /** * Constructor for concrete subclasses to call. */ protected AbstractElementVisitor8(){ super(); } }