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Class Declaration

A C/C++ declaration: for example, a variable declaration, a type declaration, or a function declaration.

This file defines two closely related classes: Declaration and DeclarationEntry. Some declarations do not correspond to a unique location in the source code. For example, a global variable might be declared in multiple source files:

  extern int myglobal;

and defined in one:

  int myglobal;

Each of these declarations (including the definition) is given its own distinct DeclarationEntry, but they all share the same Declaration.

Some derived class of Declaration do not have a corresponding DeclarationEntry, because they always have a unique source location. EnumConstant and FriendDecl are both examples of this.

Import path

import cpp

Direct supertypes

Indirect supertypes

Known direct subtypes

Predicates

getADeclarationEntry

Gets a declaration entry corresponding to this declaration. See the comment above this class for an explanation of the relationship between Declaration and DeclarationEntry.

getADeclarationLocation

Gets the location of a declaration entry corresponding to this declaration.

getAFile

Gets a file where this element occurs.

getASpecifier

Gets a specifier of this declaration.

getATemplateArgument

Gets a template argument used to instantiate this declaration from a template. When called on a template, this will return a template parameter type for both typed and non-typed parameters.

getATemplateArgumentKind

Gets a template argument used to instantiate this declaration from a template. When called on a template, this will return a non-typed template parameter value.

getDeclaringType

Gets the class where this member is declared, if it is a member. For templates, both the template itself and all instantiations of the template are considered to have the same declaring class.

getDefinition

Gets the declaration entry corresponding to this declaration that is a definition, if any.

getDefinitionLocation

Gets the location of the definition, if any.

getDescription

Gets a description of this Declaration for display purposes.

getLocation

Gets the preferred location of this declaration, if any.

getName

Gets the name of this declaration.

getNamespace

Gets the innermost namespace which contains this declaration.

getNumberOfTemplateArguments

Gets the number of template arguments for this declaration.

getQualifiedName

Gets the name of the declaration, fully qualified with its namespace and declaring type.

getTemplateArgument

Gets the ith template argument used to instantiate this declaration from a template.

getTemplateArgumentKind

Gets the ith template argument value used to instantiate this declaration from a template. When called on a template, this will return the ith template parameter value if it exists.

hasDeclaringType

Holds if this declaration is a member of a class/struct/union.

hasDefinition

Holds if the declaration has a definition.

hasGlobalName

Holds if this declaration has the given name in the global namespace.

hasGlobalOrStdName

Holds if this declaration has the given name in the global namespace or the std namespace.

hasGlobalOrStdOrBslName

Holds if this declaration has the given name in the global namespace, the std namespace or the bsl namespace. We treat std and bsl as the same in some of our models.

hasName

Holds if this declaration has the given name.

hasQualifiedName

Holds if this declaration has a fully-qualified name with a name-space component of namespaceQualifier, no declaring type, and a base name of baseName.

hasQualifiedName

Holds if this declaration has a fully-qualified name with a name-space component of namespaceQualifier, a declaring type of typeQualifier, and a base name of baseName. Template parameters and arguments are stripped from all components. Missing components are "".

hasSpecifier

Holds if this declaration has a specifier with the given name.

isMember

Holds if this declaration is a member of a class/struct/union.

isStatic

Holds if this declaration is static.

isTopLevel

Holds if this declaration is a top-level declaration.

toString

Gets a textual representation of this element.

Inherited predicates

findRootCause

Gets the source of this element: either itself or a macro that expanded to this element.

from Element
fromSource

Holds if this element may be from source. This predicate holds for all elements, except for those in the dummy file, whose name is the empty string. The dummy file contains declarations that are built directly into the compiler.

from Element
getAPrimaryQlClass

Gets the name of a primary CodeQL class to which this element belongs.

from ElementBase
getEnclosingElement

Gets the closest Element enclosing this one.

from Element
getFile

Gets the primary file where this element occurs.

from Element
getParentScope

Gets the parent scope of this Element, if any. A scope is a Type (Class / Enum), a Namespace, a BlockStmt, a Function, or certain kinds of Statement.

from Element
getPrimaryQlClasses

Gets a comma-separated list of the names of the primary CodeQL classes to which this element belongs.

from ElementBase
isAffectedByMacro

Holds if this element is affected in any way by a macro. All elements that are totally or partially generated by a macro are included, so this is a super-set of isInMacroExpansion.

from Element
isFromTemplateInstantiation

Holds if this Element is a part of a template instantiation (but not the template itself).

from Element
isFromUninstantiatedTemplate

Holds if this Element is part of a template template (not if it is part of an instantiation of template). This means it is represented in the database purely as syntax and without guarantees on the presence or correctness of type-based operations such as implicit conversions.

from Element
isInMacroExpansion

Holds if this element comes from a macro expansion. Only elements that are entirely generated by a macro are included - for elements that partially come from a macro, see isAffectedByMacro.

from Element