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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2012-2017 The ANTLR Project. All rights reserved.
 * Use of this file is governed by the BSD 3-clause license that
 * can be found in the LICENSE.txt file in the project root.
 */

package org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree;

import org.antlr.v4.runtime.RuleContext;
import org.antlr.v4.runtime.Token;

/** The basic notion of a tree has a parent, a payload, and a list of children.
 *  It is the most abstract interface for all the trees used by ANTLR.
 */
public interface Tree {
    /** The parent of this node. If the return value is null, then this
     *  node is the root of the tree.
     */
    Tree getParent();

    /**
     * This method returns whatever object represents the data at this note. For
     * example, for parse trees, the payload can be a {@link Token} representing
     * a leaf node or a {@link RuleContext} object representing a rule
     * invocation. For abstract syntax trees (ASTs), this is a {@link Token}
     * object.
     */
    Object getPayload();

    /** If there are children, get the {@code i}th value indexed from 0. */
    Tree getChild(int i);

    /** How many children are there? If there is none, then this
     *  node represents a leaf node.
     */
    int getChildCount();

    /** Print out a whole tree, not just a node, in LISP format
     *  {@code (root child1 .. childN)}. Print just a node if this is a leaf.
     */
    String toStringTree();
}