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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2006, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0,
 * or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
 */

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

/**
 * An identification variable qualified by the VALUE operator is a path
 * expression. The VALUE operator may only be applied to identification
 * variables that correspond to map-valued associations or map-valued element collections.
 * The type of the path expression is the type computed as the result of the operation; that
 * is, the abstract schema type of the field that is the value of the VALUE
 * operator (the map value).
 * 
 * This is part of JPA 2.0.
 *
 * 
BNF: VALUE(identification_variable)
 *
 * @version 2.5
 * @since 2.3
 * @author Pascal Filion
 */
public final class ValueExpression extends EncapsulatedIdentificationVariableExpression {

    /**
     * Creates a new ValueExpression.
     *
     * @param parent The parent of this expression
     */
    public ValueExpression(AbstractExpression parent) {
        super(parent, VALUE);
    }

    @Override
    public void accept(ExpressionVisitor visitor) {
        visitor.visit(this);
    }
}