1 /******************************************************************************* 2 * Copyright (c) 2005, 2007 BEA Systems, Inc. 3 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 4 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 5 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at 6 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html 7 * 8 * Contributors: 9 * tyeung@bea.com - initial API and implementation 10 *******************************************************************************/ 11 package org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.env; 12 13 /** 14 * This represents the class file information about a member value pair of an annotation. 15 */ 16 public interface IBinaryElementValuePair { 17 18 /** @return the name of the member */ 19 char[] getName(); 20 21 /** 22 * Return {@link ClassSignature} for a Class {@link java.lang.Class}. 23 * Return {@link org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.impl.Constant} for compile-time constant of primitive type, as well as String literals. 24 * Return {@link EnumConstantSignature} if value is an enum constant. 25 * Return {@link IBinaryAnnotation} for annotation type. 26 * Return {@link Object}[] for array type. 27 * 28 * @return the value of this member value pair 29 */ 30 Object getValue(); 31 } 32