pkg/analyzer/lib/src/summary/base.dart

// Copyright (c) 2014, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

/**
 * Base functionality which code generated summary classes are built upon.
 */
library analyzer.src.summary.base;

/**
 * Annotation used in the summary IDL to indicate the id of a field.  The set
 * of ids used by a class must cover the contiguous range from 0 to N-1, where
 * N is the number of fields.
 *
 * In order to preserve forwards and backwards compatibility, id numbers must
 * be stable between releases.  So when new fields are added they should take
 * the next available id without renumbering other fields.
 */
class Id {
  final int value;

  const Id(this.value);
}

/**
 * Instances of this class represent data that has been read from a summary.
 */
abstract class SummaryClass {
  /**
   * Translate the data in this class into a map whose keys are the names of
   * fields and whose values are the data stored in those fields.
   *
   * Intended for testing and debugging only.
   */
  Map<String, Object> toMap();
}