/***************************************************************** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. ****************************************************************/ package org.apache.cayenne.exp.parser; /** * Provides basic machinery for constructing the parent and child relationships * between nodes. All AST nodes must implement this interface. * * <p>Generated by JJTree</p> * * @since 1.1 */ public interface Node { /** Called after the node has been made the current node. It indicates that child nodes can now be added to it. */ public void jjtOpen(); /** Called after all the child nodes have been added. */ public void jjtClose(); /** This pair of methods are used to inform the node of its parent. */ public void jjtSetParent(Node n); public Node jjtGetParent(); /** This method tells the node to add its argument to the node's list of children. */ public void jjtAddChild(Node n, int i); /** This method returns a child node. The children are numbered from zero, left to right. */ public Node jjtGetChild(int i); /** Return the number of children the node has. */ public int jjtGetNumChildren(); }