org.eclipse.xtext.parser

Interface IAstFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

CardinalityAwareEcoreFactory, DefaultEcoreElementFactory

public interface IAstFactory

Responsible for instantiating and initializing the semantic model according to call backs from clients. Main (and only default) client is the parser.

Author:

Sven Efftinge

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	add(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject _this, String feature, Object value, String lexerRule, INode node) Adds a given value to a list described by the given feature.
org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject	create(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EClassifier clazz) Creates an instance of the given type which has to be an EClass.
void	set(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject _this, String feature, Object value, String lexerRule, INode node) Assigns a given value to a feature of the element _this.

Method Detail

create

org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject create(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EClassifier clazz)

Creates an instance of the given type which has to be an EClass.

Parameters:

clazz - the EClass to be instantiated.

Returns:

the instantiated EObject which must conform the given class.

set

void set(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject _this,
       String feature,
       Object value,
       String lexerRule,
       INode node)
         throws ValueConverterException

Assigns a given value to a feature of the element _this. The value may be converted according to the optional lexer rule. The feature must be resolvable to a single value feature.

Throws:

ValueConverterException - if the value cannot be converted.

add

void add(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject _this,
       String feature,
       Object value,
       String lexerRule,
       INode node)
         throws ValueConverterException

Adds a given value to a list described by the given feature. The list is owned by the element _this. The given value may be converted according to the optional lexer rule. The feature must be resolvable to a multi value feature.

Throws:

ValueConverterException - if the value cannot be converted.