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/*
* Copyright (c) 1997, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
*
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
* terms of the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0, which is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
*/
package com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.core;
import java.util.Collection;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement;
/**
* A particular use (specialization) of {@link JAXBElement}.
*
* TODO: is ElementInfo adaptable?
*
* @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi
*/
public interface ElementInfo extends Element {
/**
* Gets the object that represents the value property.
*
* @return
* non-null.
*/
ElementPropertyInfo getProperty();
/**
* Short for getProperty().ref().get(0)
.
*
* The type of the value this element holds.
*
* Normally, this is the T of {@code JAXBElement}.
* But if the property is adapted, this is the on-the-wire type.
*
* Or if the element has a list of values, then this field
* represents the type of the individual item.
*
* @see #getContentInMemoryType()
*/
NonElement getContentType();
/**
* T of {@code JAXBElement}.
*
*
* This is tied to the in-memory representation.
*
* @see #getContentType()
*/
T getContentInMemoryType();
/**
* Returns the representation for {@link JAXBElement}{@code } .
*
*
* This returns the signature in Java and thus isn't affected by the adapter.
*/
T getType();
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
*
* {@link ElementInfo} can only substitute {@link ElementInfo}.
*/
ElementInfo getSubstitutionHead();
/**
* All the {@link ElementInfo}s whose {@link #getSubstitutionHead()} points
* to this object.
*
* @return
* can be empty but never null.
*/
Collection> getSubstitutionMembers();
}