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package sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects;

import sun.reflect.generics.factory.GenericsFactory;
import sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier;


/**
 * Common infrastructure for things that lazily generate reflective generics
 * objects.
 * <p> In all these cases, one needs produce a visitor that will, on demand,
 * traverse the stored AST(s) and reify them into reflective objects.
 * The visitor needs to be initialized with a factory, which will be
 * provided when the instance is initialized.
 * The factory should be cached.
 *
*/
public abstract class LazyReflectiveObjectGenerator {
    private GenericsFactory factory; // cached factory

    protected LazyReflectiveObjectGenerator(GenericsFactory f) {
        factory = f;
    }

    // accessor for factory
    private GenericsFactory getFactory() {
        return factory;
    }

    // produce a reifying visitor (could this be typed as a TypeTreeVisitor?
    protected Reifier getReifier(){return Reifier.make(getFactory());}

}