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package org.glassfish.apf;

import org.glassfish.apf.Scanner;
import java.util.Set;
import org.glassfish.api.deployment.archive.ReadableArchive;

/**
 * This interface defines the context for the annotation procesing
 * handler. There is only one context instance per AnnotationProcessor 
 * invocation.
 *
 * @author Jerome Dochez
 */
public interface ProcessingContext {
    
    /**
     * Returns the AnnotationProcessor instance this context is associated
     * with. 
     * @return annotation processor instance
     */
    public AnnotationProcessor getProcessor();    
    
    /**
     * Returns the Scanner implementation which is responsible for providing
     * access to all the .class files the processing tool needs to scan.
     * @return scanner instance 
     */
    public Scanner getProcessingInput();

    /**
     * Returns the module archive that can be used to load files/resources,
     *  that assist in the processing of annotations. Using the ClassLoader is
     * preferred, but not all files can be loaded by  it and this can be handy
     * in those cases.
     *@return module archive
     */
    public ReadableArchive getArchive();

    public void setArchive(ReadableArchive archive);
    
    /**
     * Sets the Scanner implementation which is responsible for accessing 
     * all the .class files the AnnotationProcessor should process.
     */
    public void setProcessingInput(Scanner scanner);
    
    /**
     * Push a new handler on the stack of handlers. This handler will receive 
     * all the AnnotedElementHandler events until it is removed from the stack 
     * with a popHandler() call. 
     * @param handler the new events handler.
     */    
    public void pushHandler(AnnotatedElementHandler handler);
    
    /** 
     * Return the current handler (if any) receving all the annotated elements
     * start and stop events.
     * @return the top handler
     */
    public AnnotatedElementHandler getHandler();    
        
    /** 
     * Removes the top handler
     * @return the removed handler
     */
    public AnnotatedElementHandler popHandler();
    
    /** 
     * Return the top handler casted to the requested handler type
     * @param requested handler type 
     * @return the top handler
     * @throws ClassCastException if the top handler cannot be casted to 
     * the requested handler type.
     */
    public  U getHandler(Class handlerType)
        throws ClassCastException;

    /**
     * Sets the ErrorHandler instance for all errors/warnings that may be raised
     * during the annotation processing.
     * @param handler the annotation handler
     */
    public void setErrorHandler(ErrorHandler errorHandler);
    
    /**
     * Return the error handler for this processing context.
     * @return the error handler
     */
    public ErrorHandler getErrorHandler();
            
}