core/java/android/view/inspector/InspectionCompanion.java

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package android.view.inspector;

import android.annotation.NonNull;
import android.annotation.Nullable;

/**
 * An interface for companion objects used to inspect views.
 *
 * Inspection companions only need to handle the properties and node name of the specific class
 * they are defined for, not anything from a parent class. At runtime, the inspector instantiates
 * one instance of each inspection companion, and handles visiting them in the correct inheritance
 * order for each type it inspects.
 *
 * Properties are read from the top of the type tree to the bottom, so that classes that override
 * a property in their parent class can overwrite it in the reader. In general, properties will
 * cleanly inherit through their getters, and the inspector runtime will read the properties of a
 * parent class via the parent's inspection companion, and the child companion will only read
 * properties added or changed since the parent was defined.
 *
 * Only one child traversal is considered for each class. If a descendant class defines a
 * different child traversal than its parent, only the bottom traversal is used. If a class does
 * not define its own child traversal, but one of its ancestors does, the bottom-most ancestor's
 * traversal will be used.
 *
 * @param <T> The type of inspectable this is the companion to
 */
public interface InspectionCompanion<T> {
    /**
     * Map the string names of the properties this companion knows about to integer IDs.
     *
     * Each companion is responsible for storing the integer IDs of all its properties. This is the
     * only method that is allowed to modify the stored IDs.
     *
     * Calling {@link #readProperties(T, PropertyReader)} before calling this results in
     * undefined behavior.
     *
     * @param propertyMapper A {@link PropertyMapper} maps string names to IDs.
     */
    void mapProperties(@NonNull PropertyMapper propertyMapper);

    /**
     * Read the values of an instance of this companion's type into a {@link PropertyReader}.
     *
     * This method needs to return the property IDs stored by
     * {@link #mapProperties(PropertyMapper)}. Implementations should track if their properties
     * have been mapped and throw a {@link UninitializedPropertyMapException} if this method is
     * called before {mapProperties}.
     *
     * @param inspectable A object of type {T} to read the properties of.
     * @param propertyReader An object which receives the property IDs and values.
     */
    void readProperties(@NonNull T inspectable, @NonNull PropertyReader propertyReader);

    /**
     * Get an optional name to display to developers for inspection nodes of this companion's type.
     *
     * The default implementation returns null, which will cause the runtime to use the class's
     * simple name as defined by {@link Class#getSimpleName()} as the node name.
     *
     * If the type of this companion is inflated from XML, this method should be overridden to
     * return the string used as the tag name for this type in XML.
     *
     * @return A string to use as the node name, or null to use the simple class name fallback.
     */
    @Nullable
    default String getNodeName() {
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Thrown by {@link #readProperties(Object, PropertyReader)} if called before
     * {@link #mapProperties(PropertyMapper)}.
     */
    class UninitializedPropertyMapException extends RuntimeException {
        public UninitializedPropertyMapException() {
            super("Unable to read properties of an inspectable before mapping their IDs.");
        }
    }
}