Interface IRelationshipMap

All Superinterfaces:
Serializable
All Known Implementing Classes:
RelationshipMap

public interface IRelationshipMap extends Serializable
Maps from a program element handles to a list of relationships between that element and other program elements. Each element in the list or relationships is uniquely identified by a kind and a relationship name. For example, the advice affecting a particular shadow (e.g. method call) can be retrieved by calling get on the handle for that method. Symmetrically the method call shadows that an advice affects can be retrieved.

The elements can be stored and looked up as IProgramElement(s), in which cases the element corresponding to the handle is looked up in the containment hierarchy.

put/get methods taking IProgramElement as a parameter are for convenience only. They work identically to calling their counterparts with IProgramElement.getIdentifierHandle()

Author:
Mik Kersten, Andy Clement