stevedlawrence commented on a change in pull request #394:
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-daffodil/pull/394#discussion_r456002153



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daffodil-core/src/main/scala/org/apache/daffodil/dsom/walker/AbstractDSOMWalker.scala
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+package org.apache.daffodil.dsom.walker
+
+/**
+ * Below is a series of "View" Mixins defined such that particular simple 
attributes
+ * of the core DSOM classes are exposed as a Walk is performed.
+ *
+ * Several of them have a walkDSOM method.  By default, this method is called 
as the walk is performed,
+ * but a user implementing AbstractDSOMWalker can override this behavior by 
overriding walkFromRoot
+ * and implementing their own event handlers for each of the DSOM types.
+ */
+
+trait CommonContextView {
+  def namespaces: scala.xml.NamespaceBinding
+}
+
+trait TermView extends CommonContextView {
+  def isArray: Boolean
+  def isOptional: Boolean
+}
+
+trait TypeView
+trait SimpleTypeView extends TypeView {
+  def primType: PrimTypeView
+}
+trait ComplexTypeView extends TypeView {
+  def group: ModelGroupView
+}
+
+trait ModelGroupView extends TermView {
+  def groupMembers: Seq[TermView]
+}
+
+trait ChoiceView extends ModelGroupView
+trait SequenceView extends ModelGroupView
+trait GroupRefView extends ModelGroupView {
+  def isHidden: Boolean

Review comment:
       One last look over this (looking really good, btw), I'm wondering if we 
want isHidden visible? We could in theory have daffodil-core present a view of 
groupMembers where hidden group refs are filtered out. And then API users never 
even have to be aware that some things are hidden because they'll never see 
them. Right now that logic is handled by the AbstractDSOMWalker, but if a user 
didn't use that they'd have to keep hidden group refs in consideration.
   
   I think the main issue with this is that daffodil-core can't actually modify 
the underlying groupMembers. Daffodil still DSOM still needs to know about 
hidden groups, and there is no way to actually present a View different from 
the concrete class. The View can only *hide* members--it can't actually make 
changes to those members.
   
   I guess we just don't have an issue anywhere else where a View member needs 
a different type/content than the underlying member.
   
   Not sure of a good way to handle this unless we start introduce different 
names for View members or allocating new classes, which probably starts getting 
messy. So maybe this isn't worth considering, and just something to keep in 
mind with how this View API works.




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