From f357106f919d38b45e4477fc8165cdeaf80c640e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aclement <aclement>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:53:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make findElementForHandleOrCreate public

---
 asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/IHierarchy.java                      | 5 ++---
 .../org/aspectj/asm/internal/AspectJElementHierarchy.java    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/IHierarchy.java b/asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/IHierarchy.java
index 740c8f772..e1f3dded9 100644
--- a/asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/IHierarchy.java
+++ b/asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/IHierarchy.java
@@ -43,11 +43,10 @@ public interface IHierarchy extends Serializable {
 
 	public boolean isValid();
 
-	/**
-	 * @return null if not found
-	 */
 	public IProgramElement findElementForHandle(String handle);
 
+	public IProgramElement findElementForHandleOrCreate(String handle, boolean create);
+
 	/**
 	 * Returns the first match
 	 * 
diff --git a/asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/internal/AspectJElementHierarchy.java b/asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/internal/AspectJElementHierarchy.java
index 089938674..5443e759f 100644
--- a/asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/internal/AspectJElementHierarchy.java
+++ b/asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/internal/AspectJElementHierarchy.java
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ public class AspectJElementHierarchy implements IHierarchy {
 	// TODO: optimize this lookup
 	// only want to create a file node if can't find the IPE if called through
 	// findElementForHandle() to mirror behaviour before pr141730
-	private IProgramElement findElementForHandleOrCreate(String handle, boolean create) {
+	public IProgramElement findElementForHandleOrCreate(String handle, boolean create) {
 		// try the cache first...
 		IProgramElement ipe = (IProgramElement) handleMap.get(handle);
 		if (ipe != null) {
-- 
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