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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 final 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());}

}