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package com.google.devtools.build.lib.skylarkinterface;

import com.google.devtools.build.lib.concurrent.ThreadSafety;

/** Base interface for all Starlark values besides boxed Java primitives. */
public interface SkylarkValue {

  /**
   * Prints an official representation of object x.
   *
   * <p>Convention is that the string should be parseable back to the value x. If this isn't
   * feasible then it should be a short human-readable description enclosed in angled brackets, e.g.
   * {@code "<foo object>"}.
   *
   * @param printer a printer to be used for formatting nested values.
   */
  default void repr(SkylarkPrinter printer) {
    printer.append("<unknown object ").append(getClass().getName()).append(">");
  }

  /**
   * Prints an informal, human-readable representation of the value.
   *
   * <p>By default dispatches to the {@code repr} method.
   *
   * @param printer a printer to be used for formatting nested values.
   */
  default void str(SkylarkPrinter printer) {
    repr(printer);
  }

  /**
   * Prints an informal debug representation of the value.
   *
   * <p>This debug representation is only ever printed to the terminal or to another out-of-band
   * channel, and is never accessible to Skylark code. Therefore, it is safe for the debug
   * representation to reveal properties of the value that are usually hidden for the sake of
   * performance, determinism, or forward-compatibility.
   *
   * <p>By default dispatches to the {@code str} method.
   *
   * @param printer a printer to be used for formatting nested values.
   */
  default void debugPrint(SkylarkPrinter printer) {
    str(printer);
  }

  /**
   * Returns if the value is immutable.
   *
   * <p>Immutability is deep, i.e. in order for a value to be immutable, all values it is composed
   * of must be immutable, too.
   */
  // TODO(adonovan): eliminate this concept. All uses really need to know is, is it hashable?,
  // because Starlark values must have stable hashes: a hashable value must either be immutable or
  // its hash must be part of its identity.
  // But this must wait until --incompatible_disallow_hashing_frozen_mutables=true is removed.
  // (see github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7800)
  default boolean isImmutable() {
    // TODO(adonovan): this is an abuse of an unrelated annotation.
    return getClass().isAnnotationPresent(ThreadSafety.Immutable.class);
  }

  /**
   * Returns if the value is hashable and thus suitable for being used as a dictionary key.
   *
   * <p>Hashability implies immutability, but not vice versa.
   */
  default boolean isHashable() {
    return this.isImmutable();
  }
}