org.codehaus.groovy.ast.expr
Class MethodCallExpression

A method call on an object or class

author:
James Strachan
version:
$Revision: 11964 $

Field Summary
 Expression NO_ARGUMENTS
           
 Expression arguments
           
 boolean implicitThis
           
 MetaMethod metaMethod
           
 Expression method
           
 Expression objectExpression
           
 boolean safe
           
 boolean spreadSafe
           
 
Constructor Summary
MethodCallExpression(Expression objectExpression, String method, Expression arguments)
           
MethodCallExpression(Expression objectExpression, Expression method, Expression arguments)
           
 
Method Summary
Expression getArguments()
          
MetaMethod getMetaMethod()
          
Expression getMethod()
          
String getMethodAsString()
           This method returns the method name as String if it is no dynamic calculated method name, but a constant.
Expression getObjectExpression()
          
String getText()
          
boolean isImplicitThis()
           some expression was specified for the object on which to evaluate the method then return false
boolean isSafe()
           then this method call will return null rather than throwing a null pointer exception
boolean isSpreadSafe()
          
void setArguments(Expression arguments)
          
void setImplicitThis(boolean implicitThis)
          
void setMetaMethod(MetaMethod mmeth)
          
void setMethod(Expression method)
          
void setObjectExpression(Expression objectExpression)
          
void setSafe(boolean safe)
          
void setSpreadSafe(boolean value)
          
String toString()
          
Expression transformExpression(ExpressionTransformer transformer)
          
void visit(GroovyCodeVisitor visitor)
          
 

Constructor Detail

MethodCallExpression

public MethodCallExpression(Expression objectExpression, String method, Expression arguments)


MethodCallExpression

public MethodCallExpression(Expression objectExpression, Expression method, Expression arguments)


Method Detail

getArguments

public Expression getArguments()


getMetaMethod

public MetaMethod getMetaMethod()


getMethod

public Expression getMethod()


getMethodAsString

public String getMethodAsString()
This method returns the method name as String if it is no dynamic calculated method name, but a constant.


getObjectExpression

public Expression getObjectExpression()


getText

public String getText()


isImplicitThis

public boolean isImplicitThis()
return:
true if no object expression was specified otherwise if
some expression was specified for the object on which to evaluate the method then return false


isSafe

public boolean isSafe()
return:
is this a safe method call, i.e. if true then if the source object is null
then this method call will return null rather than throwing a null pointer exception


isSpreadSafe

public boolean isSpreadSafe()


setArguments

public void setArguments(Expression arguments)


setImplicitThis

public void setImplicitThis(boolean implicitThis)


setMetaMethod

public void setMetaMethod(MetaMethod mmeth)


setMethod

public void setMethod(Expression method)


setObjectExpression

public void setObjectExpression(Expression objectExpression)


setSafe

public void setSafe(boolean safe)


setSpreadSafe

public void setSpreadSafe(boolean value)


toString

public String toString()


transformExpression

public Expression transformExpression(ExpressionTransformer transformer)


visit

public void visit(GroovyCodeVisitor visitor)