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Calcite APIs for LINQ (Language-Integrated Query) in Java

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package org.apache.calcite.linq4j.tree;

import java.lang.reflect.Type;

/**
 * Analogous to LINQ's System.Linq.Expression.
 */
public abstract class Expression extends AbstractNode {

  /**
   * Creates an Expression.
   *
   * The type of the expression may, at the caller's discretion, be a
   * regular class (because {@link Class} implements {@link Type}) or it may
   * be a different implementation that retains information about type
   * parameters.
   *
   * @param nodeType Node type
   * @param type Type of the expression
   */
  protected Expression(ExpressionType nodeType, Type type) {
    super(nodeType, type);
    assert nodeType != null;
    assert type != null;
  }

  @Override // More specific return type.
  public abstract Expression accept(Shuttle shuttle);

  /**
   * Indicates that the node can be reduced to a simpler node. If this
   * returns true, Reduce() can be called to produce the reduced form.
   */
  public boolean canReduce() {
    return false;
  }
}