Class: AspectVisitor

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • helpers

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Visitor
      |
      +--AspectVisitor
         |
         +--ObjectCoder

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

System-Visiting

Version:

rev: 1.1 date: 2004/06/11 17:55:26

user: stefan

file: AspectVisitor.st directory: libbasic

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

Author:

Stefan Vogel (stefan@zwerg)

Description:

This is a Visitor that visits only some aspects of an object.


[instance variables:]
    aspect  <Symbol|Object>     something defining the aspect to be visited        

[class variables:]

Related information:

Instance protocol:

 aspect

return the value of the instance variable 'aspect' (automatically generated)

 aspect: something

set the value of the instance variable 'aspect' (automatically generated)

 aspectElementDescriptorFor: anObject

return association that should be visited for all child objects of anObject.
Return a collection of associations. The association key is the name of the object,
where the association value is the child object

 visitChildrenOf: anObject

visit all child objects of anObject.
If aspect is defined, perform aspect to fetch the child objects.
Otherwise encode all the instance variables of anObject.

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