Examples with UnionType org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.UnionType used on opensource projects

Example 6 with UnionType

use of org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.UnionType in project flux by eclipse.

the class ASTNodes method getTopMostType.

/**
	 * Returns the topmost ancestor of <code>node</code> that is a {@link Type} (but not a {@link UnionType}).
	 * <p>
	 * <b>Note:</b> The returned node often resolves to a different binding than the given <code>node</code>!
	 * 
	 * @param node the starting node, can be <code>null</code>
	 * @return the topmost type or <code>null</code> if the node is not a descendant of a type node
	 * @see #getNormalizedNode(ASTNode)
	 */
public static Type getTopMostType(ASTNode node) {
    ASTNode result = null;
    while (node instanceof Type && !(node instanceof UnionType) || node instanceof Name || node instanceof Annotation || node instanceof MemberValuePair || node instanceof Expression) {
        // Expression could maybe be reduced to expression node types that can appear in an annotation
        result = node;
        node = node.getParent();
    }
    if (result instanceof Type)
        return (Type) result;
    return null;
}