SimpleNode.java

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package org.apache.camel.language.simple.ast;

import org.apache.camel.Expression;
import org.apache.camel.language.simple.types.SimpleParserException;
import org.apache.camel.language.simple.types.SimpleToken;

/**
 * Represents a node in the Simple AST
 */
public interface SimpleNode {

    /**
     * Gets the token by which this model was based upon
     *
     * @return the token
     */
    SimpleToken getToken();

    /**
     * Creates a Camel {@link Expression} based on this model.
     *
     * @param expression the input string
     * @return the created {@link Expression}
     * @throws org.apache.camel.language.simple.types.SimpleParserException
     *          should be thrown if error parsing the model
     */
    Expression createExpression(String expression) throws SimpleParserException;

}