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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.tree;
import antlr.SemanticException;
import antlr.collections.AST;

The contract for expression sub-trees that can resolve themselves.
Author:
josh/**
 * The contract for expression sub-trees that can resolve themselves.
 *
 * @author josh
 */
public interface ResolvableNode {
	
Does the work of resolving an identifier or a dot
/**
	 * Does the work of resolving an identifier or a dot
	 */
	void resolve(boolean generateJoin, boolean implicitJoin, String classAlias, AST parent, AST parentPredicate) throws SemanticException;
	
Does the work of resolving an identifier or a dot, but without a parent predicate node
/**
	 * Does the work of resolving an identifier or a dot, but without a parent predicate node
	 */
	void resolve(boolean generateJoin, boolean implicitJoin, String classAlias, AST parent) throws SemanticException;

	
Does the work of resolving an identifier or a dot, but without a parent predicate node or parent node
/**
	 * Does the work of resolving an identifier or a dot, but without a parent predicate node or parent node
	 */
	void resolve(boolean generateJoin, boolean implicitJoin, String classAlias) throws SemanticException;

	
Does the work of resolving an identifier or a dot, but without a parent predicate node or parent node or alias
/**
	 * Does the work of resolving an identifier or a dot, but without a parent predicate node or parent node or alias
	 */
	void resolve(boolean generateJoin, boolean implicitJoin) throws SemanticException;

	
Does the work of resolving inside of the scope of a function call
/**
	 * Does the work of resolving inside of the scope of a function call
	 */
	void resolveInFunctionCall(boolean generateJoin, boolean implicitJoin) throws SemanticException;

	
Does the work of resolving an an index [].
/**
	 * Does the work of resolving an an index [].
	 */
	void resolveIndex(AST parent) throws SemanticException;

}