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/* Copyright (c) The m-m-m Team, Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 */
package net.sf.mmm.code.api.node;

import net.sf.mmm.code.api.item.CodeItem;

/**
 * {@link CodeItem} containing {@link CodeItem}s of a particular type. It groups these items and all the
 * methods to operate on them.
 *
 * @author Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)
 * @param  the type of the contained {@link CodeItem}s.
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
public abstract interface CodeNodeItemContainerHierarchical extends CodeNodeItemContainer {

  /**
   * @return the {@link Iterable} of all {@link CodeItem}s as the union of the {@link #getDeclared() declared}
   *         and its recursively traversed items. May be {@link java.util.Collection#isEmpty() empty} but is
   *         never {@code null}.
   */
  Iterable getAll();

  @Override
  CodeNodeItemContainerHierarchical copy();

}