1/* 2The MIT License 3 4Copyright (c) 2008 Tahseen Ur Rehman, Javid Jamae 5 6http://code.google.com/p/radixtree/ 7 8Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy 9of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal 10in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights 11to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell 12copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is 13furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: 14 15The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in 16all copies or substantial portions of the Software. 17 18THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 19IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 20FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 21AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 22LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, 23OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN 24THE SOFTWARE. 25*/ 26 27package ds.tree; 28 29/** 30 * The visitor interface that is used by {@link RadixTreeImpl} for perfroming 31 * task on a searched node. 32 * 33 * @author Tahseen Ur Rehman (tahseen.ur.rehman {at.spam.me.not} gmail.com) 34 * @author Javid Jamae 35 * @author Dennis Heidsiek 36 * @param <T,R> 37 */ 38public interface Visitor<T, R> { 39 /** 40 * This method gets called by {@link RadixTreeImpl#visit(String, Visitor) visit} 41 * when it finds a node matching the key given to it. 42 * 43 * @param key The key that matched the node 44 * @param parent The parent of the node being visited 45 * @param node The node that is being visited 46 */ 47 public void visit(String key, RadixTreeNode<T> parent, RadixTreeNode<T> node); 48 49 /** 50 * The visitor can store any type of result object, depending on the context of 51 * what it is being used for. 52 * 53 * @return The result captured by the visitor. 54 */ 55 public R getResult(); 56} 57