Class: AspectVisitor

• Inheritance
• Description
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • helpers

Inheritance:

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

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

System-Visiting

Version:

rev: 1.3 date: 2023/05/26 11:50:52

user: cg

file: AspectVisitor.st directory: libbasic

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

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:]

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 2002 by eXept Software AG
             All Rights Reserved

This software is furnished under a license and may be used
only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
hereby transferred.

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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