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30 package com.tc.asm;
31
32 /**
33  * A visitor to visit a Java annotation. The methods of this interface must be
34  * called in the following order: (<tt>visit<tt> | <tt>visitEnum<tt> |
35  * <tt>visitAnnotation<tt> | <tt>visitArray<tt>)* <tt>visitEnd<tt>.
36  *
37  * @author Eric Bruneton
38  * @author Eugene Kuleshov
39  */
40 public interface AnnotationVisitor {
41
42     /**
43      * Visits a primitive value of the annotation.
44      *
45      * @param name the value name.
46      * @param value the actual value, whose type must be {@link Byte},
47      * {@link Boolean}, {@link Character}, {@link Short},
48      * {@link Integer}, {@link Long}, {@link Float}, {@link Double},
49      * {@link String} or {@link Type}.
50      */
51     void visit(String JavaDoc name, Object JavaDoc value);
52
53     /**
54      * Visits an enumeration value of the annotation.
55      *
56      * @param name the value name.
57      * @param desc the class descriptor of the enumeration class.
58      * @param value the actual enumeration value.
59      */
60     void visitEnum(String JavaDoc name, String JavaDoc desc, String JavaDoc value);
61
62     /**
63      * Visits a nested annotation value of the annotation.
64      *
65      * @param name the value name.
66      * @param desc the class descriptor of the nested annotation class.
67      * @return a non null visitor to visit the actual nested annotation value.
68      * <i>The nested annotation value must be fully visited before
69      * calling other methods on this annotation visitor</i>.
70      */
71     AnnotationVisitor visitAnnotation(String JavaDoc name, String JavaDoc desc);
72
73     /**
74      * Visits an array value of the annotation.
75      *
76      * @param name the value name.
77      * @return a non null visitor to visit the actual array value elements. The
78      * 'name' parameters passed to the methods of this visitor are
79      * ignored. <i>All the array values must be visited before calling
80      * other methods on this annotation visitor</i>.
81      */
82     AnnotationVisitor visitArray(String JavaDoc name);
83
84     /**
85      * Visits the end of the annotation.
86      */
87     void visitEnd();
88 }
89
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