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// Contributors:
//     Oracle - initial API and implementation
//
package org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser;

/**
 * A role describes the purpose of the JPQL identifier.
 *
 * @version 2.5
 * @since 2.3
 * @author Pascal Filion
 */
public enum IdentifierRole {

    /**
     * Indicates the identifier aggregates two expressions together. The identifiers are AND,
     * OR, and the arithmetic operators.
     */
    AGGREGATE,

    /**
     * Indicates the identifier is used to create a clause. They are the root of a portion of the
     * query. An example is SELECT.
     */
    CLAUSE,

    /**
     * Indicates the identifier is used to complement an expression, it is not required for creating
     * an expression. Examples are AS or OUTER.
     */
    COMPLEMENT,

    /**
     * Indicates the identifier is a kind of function, it does not return a value but it is used to
     * perform some operation over an expression. The expression can have an expression before and
     * after but it's not used to aggregate those two expression. An example is x MEMBER y.
     */
    COMPOUND_FUNCTION,

    /**
     * Indicates the identifier is used to create a function, it has some parameters and returns a
     * value. An example is ABS(x), usually the identifier has some values encapsulated with
     * parenthesis.
     * 
     * Note: TRUE, FALSE, NULL, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME,
     * CURRENT_TIMESTAMP are considered functions.
     */
    FUNCTION,

    /**
     * Indicates the identifier is not part of the language but it has been reserved for future use.
     * The identifiers are BIT_LENGTH, CHAR_LENGTH, CHARACTER_LENGTH,
     * POSITION, and UNKNOWN.
     */
    UNUSED
}