org.objectweb.asm

Interface AnnotationVisitor

Known Implementing Classes:
AnnotationNode, ASMifierAnnotationVisitor, CheckAnnotationAdapter, EmptyVisitor, SAXAnnotationAdapter, TraceAnnotationVisitor

public interface AnnotationVisitor

A visitor to visit a Java annotation. The methods of this interface must be called in the following order: (visit | visitEnum | visitAnnotation | visitArray)* visitEnd.
Authors:
Eric Bruneton
Eugene Kuleshov

Method Summary

void
visit(String name, Object value)
Visits a primitive value of the annotation.
AnnotationVisitor
visitAnnotation(String name, String desc)
Visits a nested annotation value of the annotation.
AnnotationVisitor
visitArray(String name)
Visits an array value of the annotation.
void
visitEnd()
Visits the end of the annotation.
void
visitEnum(String name, String desc, String value)
Visits an enumeration value of the annotation.

Method Details

visit

public void visit(String name,
                  Object value)
Visits a primitive value of the annotation.

visitAnnotation

public AnnotationVisitor visitAnnotation(String name,
                                         String desc)
Visits a nested annotation value of the annotation.
Parameters:
name - the value name.
desc - the class descriptor of the nested annotation class.
Returns:
a non null visitor to visit the actual nested annotation value. The nested annotation value must be fully visited before calling other methods on this annotation visitor.

visitArray

public AnnotationVisitor visitArray(String name)
Visits an array value of the annotation.
Parameters:
name - the value name.
Returns:
a non null visitor to visit the actual array value elements. The 'name' parameters passed to the methods of this visitor are ignored. All the array values must be visited before calling other methods on this annotation visitor.

visitEnd

public void visitEnd()
Visits the end of the annotation.

visitEnum

public void visitEnum(String name,
                      String desc,
                      String value)
Visits an enumeration value of the annotation.
Parameters:
name - the value name.
desc - the class descriptor of the enumeration class.
value - the actual enumeration value.