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package net.sourceforge.phpdt.core.dom;
/**
* Descriptor for a simple property of an AST node.
* A simple property is one whose value is a
* primitive type (such as int
or boolean
)
* or some simple value type (such as String
or
* InfixExpression.Operator
).
*
* @see org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ASTNode#getStructuralProperty(StructuralPropertyDescriptor)
* @see org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ASTNode#setStructuralProperty(StructuralPropertyDescriptor, Object)
* @since 3.0
* @noinstantiate This class is not intended to be instantiated by clients.
*/
public final class SimplePropertyDescriptor extends StructuralPropertyDescriptor {
/**
* Value type. For example, for a node type like
* SingleVariableDeclaration, the modifiers property is int.class
*/
private final Class valueType;
/**
* Indicates whether a value is mandatory. A property value is allowed
* to be null
only if it is not mandatory.
*/
private final boolean mandatory;
/**
* Creates a new simple property descriptor with the given property id.
* Note that this constructor is declared package-private so that
* property descriptors can only be created by the AST
* implementation.
*
* @param nodeClass concrete AST node type that owns this property
* @param propertyId the property id
* @param valueType the value type of this property
* @param mandatory true
if the property is mandatory,
* and false
if it is may be null
*/
SimplePropertyDescriptor(Class nodeClass, String propertyId, Class valueType, boolean mandatory) {
super(nodeClass, propertyId);
if (valueType == null || ASTNode.class.isAssignableFrom(valueType)) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException();
}
this.valueType = valueType;
this.mandatory = mandatory;
}
/**
* Returns the value type of this property.
*
* For example, for a node type like SingleVariableDeclaration,
* the "modifiers" property returns int.class
.
*
null
if it is mandatory.
*
* @return true
if the property is mandatory,
* and false
if it is may be null
*/
public boolean isMandatory() {
return this.mandatory;
}
}