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package scala.reflect
package api

trait ToolBoxes { self: Universe =>

  type ToolBox <: AbsToolBox

  def mkToolBox(frontEnd: FrontEnd = mkSilentFrontEnd(), options: String = ""): AbsToolBox

  // [Eugene] what do you think about the interface? namely about the ``freeTypes'' part.
  trait AbsToolBox {

    /** Front end of the toolbox.
     *
     *  Accumulates and displays warnings and errors, can drop to interactive mode (if supported).
     *  The latter can be useful to study the typechecker or to debug complex macros.
     */
    def frontEnd: FrontEnd

    /** Typechecks a tree using this ToolBox.
     *  This populates symbols and types of the tree and possibly transforms it to reflect certain desugarings.
     *
     *  If the tree has unresolved type variables (represented as instances of ``FreeType'' symbols),
     *  then they might, might be partially or might not be specified in the ``freeTypes'' parameter.
     *
     *  If ``silent'' is false, ``TypeError'' will be thrown in case of a typecheck error.
     *  If ``silent'' is true, the typecheck is silent and will return ``EmptyTree'' if an error occurs.
     *  Such errors don't vanish and can be inspected by turning on -Ydebug.
     *
     *  Typechecking can be steered with the following optional parameters:
     *    ``withImplicitViewsDisabled'' recursively prohibits implicit views (though, implicit vals will still be looked up and filled in), default value is false
     *    ``withMacrosDisabled'' recursively prohibits macro expansions and macro-based implicits, default value is false
     */
    def typeCheck(tree: Tree, pt: Type = WildcardType, freeTypes: Map[FreeType, Type] = Map[FreeType, Type](), silent: Boolean = false, withImplicitViewsDisabled: Boolean = false, withMacrosDisabled: Boolean = false): Tree

    /** Infers an implicit value of the expected type ``pt'' in the macro callsite context.
     *
     *  If ``silent'' is false, ``TypeError'' will be thrown in case of an inference error.
     *  If ``silent'' is true, the typecheck is silent and will return ``EmptyTree'' if an error occurs.
     *  Such errors don't vanish and can be inspected by turning on -Xlog-implicits.
     *  Unlike in ``typeCheck'', ``silent'' is true by default.
     */
    def inferImplicitValue(pt: Type, silent: Boolean = true, withMacrosDisabled: Boolean = false): Tree

    /** Infers an implicit view from the provided tree ``tree'' from the type ``from'' to the type ``to'' in the macro callsite context.
     *
     *  Otional parameter, ``reportAmbiguous`` controls whether ambiguous implicit errors should be reported.
     *  If we search for a view simply to find out whether one type is coercible to another, it might be desirable to set this flag to ``false''.
     *
     *  If ``silent'' is false, ``TypeError'' will be thrown in case of an inference error.
     *  If ``silent'' is true, the typecheck is silent and will return ``EmptyTree'' if an error occurs.
     *  Such errors don't vanish and can be inspected by turning on -Xlog-implicits.
     *  Unlike in ``typeCheck'', ``silent'' is true by default.
     */
    def inferImplicitView(tree: Tree, from: Type, to: Type, silent: Boolean = true, withMacrosDisabled: Boolean = false, reportAmbiguous: Boolean = true): Tree

    /** Recursively resets symbols and types in a given tree.
     *
     *  Note that this does not revert the tree to its pre-typer shape.
     *  For more info, read up https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-5464.
     */
    def resetAllAttrs(tree: Tree): Tree

    /** Recursively resets locally defined symbols and types in a given tree.
     *
     *  Note that this does not revert the tree to its pre-typer shape.
     *  For more info, read up https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-5464.
     */
    def resetLocalAttrs(tree: Tree): Tree

    /** Compiles and runs a tree using this ToolBox.
     *
     *  If the tree has unresolved type variables (represented as instances of ``FreeType'' symbols),
     *  then they all have to be specified in the ``freeTypes'' parameter or an error occurs.
     *
     *  This spawns the compiler at the Namer phase, and pipelines the tree through that compiler.
     *  Currently ``runExpr'' does not accept trees that already typechecked, because typechecking isn't idempotent.
     *  For more info, take a look at https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-5464.
     */
    def runExpr(tree: Tree, freeTypes: Map[FreeType, Type] = Map[FreeType, Type]()): Any

    /** Represents an error during toolboxing
     */
    type ToolBoxError <: Throwable
    val ToolBoxError: ToolBoxErrorExtractor
    abstract class ToolBoxErrorExtractor {
      def unapply(error: ToolBoxError): Option[(ToolBox, String)]
    }
  }
}