/* *******************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2002 Palo Alto Research Center, Incorporated (PARC).
 * All rights reserved.
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available
 * under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v 2.0
 * which accompanies this distribution and is available at
 * https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-2.0/EPL-2.0.txt
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     PARC     initial implementation
 * ******************************************************************/

package org.aspectj.weaver.ast;

import org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedType;

public class Var extends Expr {
	public static final Var[] NONE = new Var[0];
	ResolvedType variableType;

	public Var(ResolvedType variableType) {
		super();
		this.variableType = variableType;
	}

	public ResolvedType getType() {
		return variableType;
	}

	public String toString() {
		return "(Var " + variableType + ")";
	}

	public void accept(IExprVisitor v) {
		v.visit(this);
	}

	/**
	 * For an annotation this will return a variable that can access a specific field of the annotation (of the specified type) TODO
	 * what kind of behaviour happens for two annotation fields of the same type?
	 *
	 * @param formalType
	 * @param formalName
	 * @return
	 */
	public Var getAccessorForValue(ResolvedType formalType, String formalName) {
		throw new IllegalStateException("Only makes sense for annotation variables");
	}
}