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* Copyright 2011 Google Inc.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
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package com.google.gwt.core.ext;
/**
* An extension to the {@link Generator} class which supports incremental
* generation. It adds a {@link #generateIncrementally} method.
*/
public abstract class IncrementalGenerator extends Generator {
/**
* A static helper method to wrap a non-incremental generator's result. It
* calls the generator's {@link Generator#generate} method, and synthesizes a
* {@link RebindResult} instance to be returned.
*
* @param logger A TreeLogger
* @param generator A non-incremental generator
* @param context The generator context
* @param typeName The type for which a subclass will be generated
* @return a RebindResult
* @throws UnableToCompleteException
*/
public static RebindResult generateNonIncrementally(TreeLogger logger, Generator generator,
GeneratorContext context, String typeName) throws UnableToCompleteException {
RebindMode mode;
String resultTypeName = generator.generate(logger, context, typeName);
if (resultTypeName == null) {
mode = RebindMode.USE_EXISTING;
resultTypeName = typeName;
} else {
mode = RebindMode.USE_ALL_NEW_WITH_NO_CACHING;
}
return new RebindResult(mode, resultTypeName);
}
/**
* This method overrides {@link Generator#generate}, and is included only for
* backwards compatibility. It wraps a call to {@link #generateIncrementally}.
* This method won't normally be called by the gwt rebind process, and it is
* declared final and can't be overridden. It is provided in support of
* existing applications and other generators which call this method directly,
* outside of the gwt framework.
*
* The passed in context is wrapped with an instance of
* {@link NonIncrementalGeneratorContext}, to ensure that no generator result
* caching is attempted, since the cached result will be ignored by callers of
* this method anyway.
*
* @see Generator#generate
*
* @param logger A TreeLogger
* @param context The generator context
* @param typeName The type for which a subclass will be generated
* @return the name of a subclass to substitute for the requested class, or
* return null to cause the requested type itself to be
* used
* @throws UnableToCompleteException
*/
@Override
public final String generate(TreeLogger logger, GeneratorContext context, String typeName)
throws UnableToCompleteException {
/*
* Since no generator result caching should happen if this method is called,
* we wrap the context, to ensure that the check for {@link
* GeneratorContext.isGeneratorResultCachingEnabled()} will return false.
*/
GeneratorContext wrappedContext = NonIncrementalGeneratorContext.newInstance(context);
RebindResult result = generateIncrementally(logger, wrappedContext, typeName);
return result.getResultTypeName();
}
/**
* Incrementally generate a default constructible subclass of the requested
* type. The generator can use information from the context to make decisions
* on whether to incrementally reuse cached output from previous invocations.
*
* It returns a {@link RebindResult}, which contains a {@link RebindMode}
* field, which indicates whether to use previously cached output, newly
* generated output, or a partial mixture of both cached and newly generated
* output.
*
* The result also includes a field for the name of the subclass to substitute
* for the requested class. It may also contain extra client data added by
* specific generator implementations.
*
* This method throws an UnableToCompleteException if for any
* reason it cannot complete successfully.
*
* @see RebindResult
* @see RebindMode
*
* @param logger A TreeLogger
* @param context The generator context
* @param typeName The type for which a subclass will be generated
* @return a RebindResult
* @throws UnableToCompleteException
*/
public abstract RebindResult generateIncrementally(TreeLogger logger, GeneratorContext context,
String typeName) throws UnableToCompleteException;
/**
* Returns a version id for an IncrementalGenerator. It is used by the system
* to invalidate {@link CachedGeneratorResult}'s that were generated by a
* different version of this generator. This is useful when new versions of a
* generator are developed, which might alter the structure of generated
* output, or alter semantics for cache reusability checking.
*
* It is the responsibility of the developer to maintain this version id
* consistently.
*
* @return a version id
*/
public abstract long getVersionId();
}