moduleceylon.ast.core1.2.2
ceylon.ast.core
classInterfaceAliasDefinition
extends AnyInterface
OverviewPackageInitializerAttributesMethods

An interface alias definition.

An interface alias definition has the following components:

(While semantically, an interface alias may never have case types or satisfy other types, these nodes may syntactically still be present.)

Examples:

shared interface People => {Person*};
shared interface Compare<Value> => Comparison(Value,Value);

no subtypes hierarchy

Initializer
InterfaceAliasDefinition(UIdentifier name, TypeSpecifier specifier, CaseTypes? caseTypes = null, SatisfiedTypes? satisfiedTypes = null, TypeParameters? typeParameters = null, TypeConstraint[] typeConstraints = [], Annotations annotations = ...)
Parameters:
  • name

    The name of the interface.

  • specifier

    The specifier of the interface.

  • caseTypes = null

    The case types of the interface, if present.

    (In fact, a class alias may never have case types, but nevertheless it’s syntactically valid.)

  • satisfiedTypes = null

    The satisfied types of the interface, if present.

  • typeParameters = null

    The type parameters of the interface, if present.

  • typeConstraints = []

    The type constraints of the interface, if any.

  • annotations = Annotations()

    The annotations of the interface.

Attributes
annotationsshared actual Annotations annotations

The annotations of the interface.

Refines Declaration.annotations
caseTypesshared actual CaseTypes? caseTypes

The case types of the interface, if present.

(In fact, a class alias may never have case types, but nevertheless it’s syntactically valid.)

Refines ClassOrInterface.caseTypes
childrenshared actual <Annotations|UIdentifier|TypeParameters|CaseTypes|SatisfiedTypes|TypeConstraint|TypeSpecifier>[] children

The child nodes of this node.

Refines Node.children
hashshared actual Integer hash

The hash value of the value, which allows the value to be an element of a hash-based set or key of a hash-based map. Implementations must respect the constraint that:

  • if x==y then x.hash==y.hash.

Therefore, a class which refines equals must also refine hash.

In general, hash values vary between platforms and between executions of the same program.

Note that when executing on a Java Virtual Machine, the 64-bit Integer value returned by an implementation of hash is truncated to a 32-bit integer value by removal of the 32 highest order bits, before returning the value to the caller.

Refines Object.hash
nameshared actual UIdentifier name

The name of the interface.

Refines TypeDeclaration.name ultimately refines Declaration.name
satisfiedTypesshared actual SatisfiedTypes? satisfiedTypes

The satisfied types of the interface, if present.

Refines ClassOrInterface.satisfiedTypes
specifiershared TypeSpecifier specifier

The specifier of the interface.

typeConstraintsshared actual TypeConstraint[] typeConstraints

The type constraints of the interface, if any.

Refines TypeDeclaration.typeConstraints
typeParametersshared actual TypeParameters? typeParameters

The type parameters of the interface, if present.

Refines TypeDeclaration.typeParameters
Inherited Attributes
Attributes inherited from: ClassOrInterface
caseTypes, satisfiedTypes
Attributes inherited from: Declaration
annotations, name
Attributes inherited from: Node
children, data, string
Attributes inherited from: Object
hash, string
Attributes inherited from: TypeDeclaration
name, typeConstraints, typeParameters
Methods
copyshared InterfaceAliasDefinition copy(UIdentifier name = ..., TypeSpecifier specifier = ..., CaseTypes? caseTypes = ..., SatisfiedTypes? satisfiedTypes = ..., TypeParameters? typeParameters = ..., TypeConstraint[] typeConstraints = ..., Annotations annotations = ...)
Parameters:
  • name = this.name
  • specifier = this.specifier
  • caseTypes = this.caseTypes
  • satisfiedTypes = this.satisfiedTypes
  • typeParameters = this.typeParameters
  • typeConstraints = this.typeConstraints
  • annotations = this.annotations
equalsshared actual Boolean equals(Object that)

Determine if two values are equal. Implementations should respect the constraints that:

  • if x===y then x==y (reflexivity),
  • if x==y then y==x (symmetry),
  • if x==y and y==z then x==z (transitivity).

Furthermore it is recommended that implementations ensure that if x==y then x and y have the same concrete class.

A class which explicitly refines equals() is said to support value equality, and the equality operator == is considered much more meaningful for such classes than for a class which simply inherits the default implementation of identity equality from Identifiable.

Note that an implementation of equals() that always returns false does satisfy the constraints given above. Therefore, in very rare cases where there is no reasonable definition of value equality for a class, for example, function references (Callable), it is acceptable for equals() to be defined to return false for every argument.

Refines Object.equals
transformshared actual Result transform<out Result>(Transformer<Result> transformer)

Transform this node with the given transformer by calling the appropriate transformX method on the transformer.

If you have a Node node that’s actually an LIdentifier instance, then the runtime will call LIdentifier.transform; therefore, this method is by nature narrowing. This means that if transformer is a NarrowingTransformer, calling node.transform(transformer) is equivalent to calling transformer.transformNode(node). On the other hand, if transformer is a WideningTransformer, then the two operations are very different.

Refines Node.transform
visitshared actual void visit(Visitor visitor)

Visit this node with the given visitor. Calls the appropriate visitX method on the visitor.

Refines Node.visit
Inherited Methods
Methods inherited from: Node
copyExtraInfoTo(), delete(), get(), getObject(), put(), remove(), set(), transform(), transformChildren(), visit(), visitChildren()
Methods inherited from: Object
equals