// Copyright (c) Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. See License.txt in the project root for license information.

namespace System.Data.Entity.Core.Query.InternalTrees
{
    using System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm;
    using System.Diagnostics;

    // <summary>
    // An internal cast operation. (Softly) Convert a type instance into an instance of another type
    // This Op is intended to capture "promotion" semantics. (ie) int16 promotes to an int32; Customer promotes to Person
    // etc. This Op is intended to shield the PlanCompiler from having to reason about
    // the promotion semantics; and is intended to make the query tree very
    // explicit
    // </summary>
    internal sealed class SoftCastOp : ScalarOp
    {
        #region constructors

        internal SoftCastOp(TypeUsage type)
            : base(OpType.SoftCast, type)
        {
        }

        private SoftCastOp()
            : base(OpType.SoftCast)
        {
        }

        #endregion

        #region public methods

        // <summary>
        // Pattern for transformation rules
        // </summary>
        internal static readonly SoftCastOp Pattern = new SoftCastOp();

        // <summary>
        // 1 child - input expression
        // </summary>
        internal override int Arity
        {
            get { return 1; }
        }

        // <summary>
        // Visitor pattern method
        // </summary>
        // <param name="v"> The BasicOpVisitor that is visiting this Op </param>
        // <param name="n"> The Node that references this Op </param>
        [DebuggerNonUserCode]
        internal override void Accept(BasicOpVisitor v, Node n)
        {
            v.Visit(this, n);
        }

        // <summary>
        // Visitor pattern method for visitors with a return value
        // </summary>
        // <param name="v"> The visitor </param>
        // <param name="n"> The node in question </param>
        // <returns> An instance of TResultType </returns>
        [DebuggerNonUserCode]
        internal override TResultType Accept<TResultType>(BasicOpVisitorOfT<TResultType> v, Node n)
        {
            return v.Visit(this, n);
        }

        #endregion
    }
}
