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package org.eigenbase.rex;

import org.eigenbase.reltype.*;
import org.eigenbase.sql.SqlKind;

/**
 * Access to a field of a row-expression.
 *
 * <p>You might expect to use a <code>RexFieldAccess</code> to access columns of
 * relational tables, for example, the expression <code>emp.empno</code> in the
 * query
 *
 * <blockquote>
 * <pre>SELECT emp.empno FROM emp</pre>
 * </blockquote>
 *
 * but there is a specialized expression {@link RexInputRef} for this purpose.
 * So in practice, <code>RexFieldAccess</code> is usually used to access fields
 * of correlating variables, for example the expression <code>emp.deptno</code>
 * in
 *
 * <blockquote>
 * <pre>SELECT ename
 * FROM dept
 * WHERE EXISTS (
 *     SELECT NULL
 *     FROM emp
 *     WHERE emp.deptno = dept.deptno
 *     AND gender = 'F')</pre>
 * </blockquote>
 */
public class RexFieldAccess extends RexNode {
  //~ Instance fields --------------------------------------------------------

  private final RexNode expr;
  private final RelDataTypeField field;

  //~ Constructors -----------------------------------------------------------

  RexFieldAccess(
      RexNode expr,
      RelDataTypeField field) {
    this.expr = expr;
    this.field = field;
    this.digest = expr + "." + field.getName();
    assert expr.getType().getFieldList().get(field.getIndex()) == field;
  }

  //~ Methods ----------------------------------------------------------------

  public RelDataTypeField getField() {
    return field;
  }

  public RelDataType getType() {
    return field.getType();
  }

  public SqlKind getKind() {
    return SqlKind.FIELD_ACCESS;
  }

  public <R> R accept(RexVisitor<R> visitor) {
    return visitor.visitFieldAccess(this);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the expression whose field is being accessed.
   */
  public RexNode getReferenceExpr() {
    return expr;
  }
}

// End RexFieldAccess.java