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package com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.runtime;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.Collection;
import com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.core.PropertyInfo;
import com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.reflect.Accessor;
/**
* {@link PropertyInfo} that exposes more information.
*
* @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi ([email protected])
*/
public interface RuntimePropertyInfo extends PropertyInfo {
/** {@inheritDoc} */
Collection ref();
/**
* Gets the {@link Accessor} for this property.
*
*
* Even for a multi-value property, this method returns an accessor
* to that property. IOW, the accessor works against the raw type.
*
*
* This methods returns unoptimized accessor (because optimization
* accessors are often combined into bigger pieces, and optimization
* generally works better if you can look at a bigger piece, as opposed
* to individually optimize a smaller components)
*
* @return
* never null.
*
* @see Accessor#optimize()
*/
Accessor getAccessor();
/**
* Returns true if this property has an element-only content. False otherwise.
*/
public boolean elementOnlyContent();
/**
* Gets the "raw" type of the field.
*
* The raw type is the actual signature of the property.
* For example, if the field is the primitive int, this will be the primitive int.
* If the field is Object, this will be Object.
* If the property is the collection and typed as {@code Collection},
* this method returns {@code Collection}.
*
* @return always non-null.
*/
Type getRawType();
/**
* Gets the type of the individual item.
*
* The individual type is the signature of the property used to store individual
* values. For a non-collection field, this is the same as {@link #getRawType()}.
* For acollection property, this is the type used to store individual value.
* So if {@link #getRawType()} is {@code Collection}, this method will
* return {@link Integer}.
*
* @return always non-null.
*/
Type getIndividualType();
}