| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2011, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |
| * |
| * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the |
| * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0, |
| * or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php. |
| * |
| * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause |
| */ |
| |
| // Contributors: |
| // Oracle - initial API and implementation |
| // |
| package org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.tools.model; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser.Expression; |
| import org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.tools.model.query.StateObject; |
| |
| /** |
| * This builder is used by {@link BasicStateObjectBuilder}, which allows subclasses to easily change |
| * any internal builders used for properly creating the state model representation of a JPQL query. |
| * |
| * @version 2.4 |
| * @since 2.4 |
| * @author Pascal Filion |
| */ |
| public interface IBuilder<T extends StateObject, S extends StateObject> { |
| |
| /** |
| * Creates the {@link StateObject} representation of the given {@link Expression}. |
| * |
| * @param parent The parent of the new {@link StateObject} to create |
| * @param expression The parsed {@link Expression} to convert into a {@link StateObject} |
| * @return The {@link StateObject} representation of the given {@link Expression} |
| */ |
| T buildStateObject(S parent, Expression expression); |
| } |