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 * Copyright (C) 2021 ZeoFlow SRL
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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package com.zeoflow.depot.compiler.processing

/**
 * This wraps an annotation element that is both accessible from the processor and runtime.
 *
 * It won't scale to a general purpose processing APIs where an equivelant of the AnnotationMirror
 * API needs to be provided but works well for Depot's case.
 */
interface XAnnotationBox {
    /**
     * The value field of the annotation
     */
    val value: T

    /**
     * Returns the value of the given [methodName] as a type reference.
     */
    fun getAsType(methodName: String): XType?

    /**
     * Returns the value of the given [methodName] as a list of type references.
     */
    fun getAsTypeList(methodName: String): List

    /**
     * Returns the value of the given [methodName] as another boxed annotation.
     */
    fun  getAsAnnotationBox(methodName: String): XAnnotationBox

    /**
     * Returns the value of the given [methodName] as an array of boxed annotations.
     */
    fun  getAsAnnotationBoxArray(methodName: String): Array>
}