com.marsching.flexiparse.objecttree
Interface MutableObjectTreeElement

All Superinterfaces:

ObjectTreeElement

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultMutableObjectTreeElement

public interface MutableObjectTreeElement
extends ObjectTreeElement

ObjectTreeElement that can be modified. Child nodes may be added to or deleted from this node.

Author:

Sebastian Marsching

Method Summary

void	addChild(MutableObjectTreeElement child) Registers another node as a child node of this node.
Collection<? extends MutableObjectTreeElement>	getChildren() Returns all children of this node.
MutableObjectTreeElement	getParent() Returns the parent of this node.
ObjectTreeElement	getRoot() Returns the root node of the tree this node belongs to.
boolean	removeChild(MutableObjectTreeElement child) Removes the specified child from this node.

Methods inherited from interface com.marsching.flexiparse.objecttree.ObjectTreeElement

addObject, getObjects, getObjectsOfType, getObjectsOfTypeFromSubTree, getObjectsOfTypeFromTopTree, removeObject

Method Detail

addChild

void addChild(MutableObjectTreeElement child)

Registers another node as a child node of this node. For each child node, this method should only be called once. This node should be registered as the parent node of the node being supplied by the calling code.

Parameters:

child - node to be attached as a child.

removeChild

boolean removeChild(MutableObjectTreeElement child)

Removes the specified child from this node.

Parameters:

child - node to remove

Returns:

true if child was attached to this node, false otherwise

getParent

MutableObjectTreeElement getParent()

Returns the parent of this node.

Specified by:

getParent in interface ObjectTreeElement

Returns:

parent of this node or null if this is the root node

getRoot

ObjectTreeElement getRoot()

Returns the root node of the tree this node belongs to.

Specified by:

getRoot in interface ObjectTreeElement

Returns:

root node of the tree

getChildren

Collection<? extends MutableObjectTreeElement> getChildren()

Returns all children of this node.

Specified by:

getChildren in interface ObjectTreeElement

Returns:

a list containing all child nodes of this node