/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2010 Tomasz Wesolowski
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Tomasz Wesolowski - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.rewrite;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IASTDeclSpecifier;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IASTDeclarator;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.INodeFactory;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IType;
import org.eclipse.cdt.internal.core.dom.rewrite.DeclarationGeneratorImpl;
/**
*
* This class handles the creation of {@link IASTDeclarator}s and {@link IASTDeclSpecifier}s basing on given type.
*
* @author Tomasz Wesolowski
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
* @since 5.3
*/
public abstract class DeclarationGenerator {
public static DeclarationGenerator create(INodeFactory factory) {
return new DeclarationGeneratorImpl(factory);
}
/**
* Creates a new {@link IASTDeclSpecifier}DeclSpecifier for a given {@link IType}.
* @param type the type to describe
* @return the generated declaration specifier
*/
public abstract IASTDeclSpecifier createDeclSpecFromType(IType type);
/**
* Creates a new {@link IASTDeclarator}Declarator for a given {@link IType}.
* @param type the type to describe
* @param name the name for the declarator
* @return the generated declarator
*/
public abstract IASTDeclarator createDeclaratorFromType(IType type, char[] name);
}