R - the return type of this visitor's methods. Use Void for visitors that do not need to return results.P - the type of the additional parameter to this visitor's methods. Use Void for visitors that do not need an additional parameter.public interface TypeVisitor<R,P>
A visitor of types, in the style of the visitor design pattern. Classes implementing this interface are used to operate on a type when the kind of type is unknown at compile time. When a visitor is passed to a type's accept method, the visitXYZ method most applicable to that type is invoked.
Classes implementing this interface may or may not throw a NullPointerException if the additional parameter p is null; see documentation of the implementing class for details.
WARNING: It is possible that methods will be added to this interface to accommodate new, currently unknown, language structures added to future versions of the Java™ programming language. Therefore, visitor classes directly implementing this interface may be source incompatible with future versions of the platform. To avoid this source incompatibility, visitor implementations are encouraged to instead extend the appropriate abstract visitor class that implements this interface. However, an API should generally use this visitor interface as the type for parameters, return type, etc. rather than one of the abstract classes.
Note that methods to accommodate new language constructs could be added in a source compatible way if they were added as default methods. However, default methods are only available on Java SE 8 and higher releases and the javax.lang.model.* packages bundled in Java SE 8 are required to also be runnable on Java SE 7. Therefore, default methods cannot be used when extending javax.lang.model.* to cover Java SE 8 language features. However, default methods may be used in subsequent revisions of the javax.lang.model.* packages that are only required to run on Java SE 8 and higher platform versions.
R visit(TypeMirror t,
P p) Visits a type.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameterR visit(TypeMirror t)
A convenience method equivalent to v.visit(t, null).
t - the element to visitR visitPrimitive(PrimitiveType t,
P p) Visits a primitive type.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameterR visitNull(NullType t,
P p) Visits the null type.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameterR visitArray(ArrayType t,
P p) Visits an array type.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameterR visitDeclared(DeclaredType t,
P p) Visits a declared type.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameterR visitError(ErrorType t,
P p) Visits an error type.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameterR visitTypeVariable(TypeVariable t,
P p) Visits a type variable.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameterR visitWildcard(WildcardType t,
P p) Visits a wildcard type.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameterR visitExecutable(ExecutableType t,
P p) Visits an executable type.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameterR visitNoType(NoType t,
P p) Visits a NoType instance.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameterR visitUnknown(TypeMirror t,
P p) Visits an unknown kind of type. This can occur if the language evolves and new kinds of types are added to the TypeMirror hierarchy.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameterUnknownTypeException - a visitor implementation may optionally throw this exceptionR visitUnion(UnionType t,
P p) Visits a union type.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameterR visitIntersection(IntersectionType t,
P p) Visits an intersection type.
t - the type to visitp - a visitor-specified parameter
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