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//Copyright 2007-2010 David Yu [email protected]
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package com.dyuproject.protostuff.parser;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Map;
/**
* An entity that containts annotations.
*
* @author David Yu
* @created Dec 30, 2010
*/
public interface HasAnnotations
{
/**
* Adds the annoation.
*/
public void add(Annotation annotation);
/**
* Adds all the annotations to this container.
* If {@code clearSource} is true, the {@code source} arg is cleared.
*/
public boolean addAnnotations(Map source, boolean clearSource);
/**
* Gets the annotation map.
*/
public Map getAnnotationMap();
/**
* Gets the annotations.
*/
public Collection getAnnotations();
/**
* Gets the annotation by key/name.
*/
public Annotation getAnnotation(String name);
}