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Spoon is a tool for meta-programming, analysis and transformation of Java programs.
/*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: (MIT OR CECILL-C)
*
* Copyright (C) 2006-2023 INRIA and contributors
*
* Spoon is available either under the terms of the MIT License (see LICENSE-MIT.txt) or the Cecill-C License (see LICENSE-CECILL-C.txt). You as the user are entitled to choose the terms under which to adopt Spoon.
*/
package spoon.processing;
import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.util.Set;
import spoon.reflect.declaration.CtAnnotation;
import spoon.reflect.declaration.CtElement;
/**
* This interface defines an annotation processor. An annotation processor is
* triggered by Spoon when a visited element is annotated with one of the
* processed or consumed annotations. To define a new annotation processor, the
* user should subclass {@link spoon.processing.AbstractAnnotationProcessor},
* the abstract default implementation of this interface.
*/
public interface AnnotationProcessor
extends Processor {
/**
* Do the annotation processing job for a given annotation.
*
* @param annotation
* the annotation to process
* @param element
* the element that holds the processed annotations
*/
void process(A annotation, E element);
/**
* Gets the annotations processed by this annotation processor, that is to
* say the annotation types that trigger the
* {@link #process(Annotation, CtElement)} method when visiting a program
* element. The processed annotation types includes all the consumed
* annotation types.
*
* @return the annotation classes
*/
Set> getProcessedAnnotationTypes();
/**
* Gets the annotations types consumed by this processor. A consumed
* annotation is a special kind of processed annotation (see
* {@link #getProcessedAnnotationTypes()} that is automatically removed from
* the program once the associated processor has finished its job.
*
* @return the annotation classes
*/
Set> getConsumedAnnotationTypes();
/**
* Returns true (default) if the processor automatically infers the consumed
* annotation type to the A actual type.
*/
boolean inferConsumedAnnotationType();
/**
* Returns true if this annotation should be removed from the processed code.
*/
boolean shoudBeConsumed(CtAnnotation annotation);
}