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/*
* Detail.java July 2012
*
* Copyright (C) 2012, Niall Gallagher
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
* implied. See the License for the specific language governing
* permissions and limitations under the License.
*/
package org.simpleframework.xml.core;
import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
import java.util.List;
import org.simpleframework.xml.DefaultType;
import org.simpleframework.xml.Namespace;
import org.simpleframework.xml.NamespaceList;
import org.simpleframework.xml.Order;
import org.simpleframework.xml.Root;
/**
* The Detail
object is used to provide various details
* for a type. Most of the data that can be acquired from this can
* also be acquired from the Class
. However, in some
* environments, particularly Android, reflection and introspection
* is very slow. This class attempts to reduce the overheads by
* caching all the data extracted from the class for future use.
*
* @author Niall Gallagher
*
* @see org.simpleframework.xml.core.Support
*/
interface Detail {
/**
* This method is used to determine whether strict mappings are
* required. Strict mapping means that all labels in the class
* schema must match the XML elements and attributes in the
* source XML document. When strict mapping is disabled, then
* XML elements and attributes that do not exist in the schema
* class will be ignored without breaking the parser.
*
* @return true if strict parsing is enabled, false otherwise
*/
boolean isStrict();
/**
* This is used to determine if the generated annotations are
* required or not. By default generated parameters are required.
* Setting this to false means that null values are accepted
* by all defaulted fields or methods depending on the type.
*
* @return this is used to determine if defaults are required
*/
boolean isRequired();
/**
* This is used to determine if the class is an inner class. If
* the class is a inner class and not static then this returns
* false. Only static inner classes can be instantiated using
* reflection as they do not require a "this" argument.
*
* @return this returns true if the class is a static inner
*/
boolean isInstantiable();
/**
* This is used to determine whether this detail represents a
* primitive type. A primitive type is any type that does not
* extend Object
, examples are int, long and double.
*
* @return this returns true if no XML annotations were found
*/
boolean isPrimitive();
/**
* This is used to acquire the super type for the class that is
* represented by this detail. If the super type for the class
* is Object
then this will return null.
*
* @return returns the super type for this class or null
*/
Class getSuper();
/**
* This returns the type represented by this detail. The type is
* the class that has been scanned for annotations, methods and
* fields. All super types of this are represented in the detail.
*
* @return the type that this detail object represents
*/
Class getType();
/**
* This returns the name of the class represented by this detail.
* The name is either the name as specified in the last found
* Root
annotation, or if a name was not specified
* within the discovered root then the Java Bean class name of
* the last class annotated with a root annotation.
*
* @return this returns the name of the object being scanned
*/
String getName();
/**
* This returns the Root
annotation for the class.
* The root determines the type of deserialization that is to
* be performed and also contains the name of the root element.
*
* @return this returns the name of the object being scanned
*/
Root getRoot();
/**
* This returns the order annotation used to determine the order
* of serialization of attributes and elements. The order is a
* class level annotation that can be used only once per class
* XML schema. If none exists then this will return null.
* of the class processed by this scanner.
*
* @return this returns the name of the object being scanned
*/
Order getOrder();
/**
* This returns the Default
annotation access type
* that has been specified by this. If no default annotation has
* been declared on the type then this will return null.
*
* @return this returns the default access type for this type
*/
DefaultType getAccess();
/**
* This returns the DefaultType
override used for this
* detail. An override is used only when the class contains no
* annotations and does not have a Transform
of any
* type associated with it. It allows serialization of external
* objects without the need to annotate the types.
*
* @return this returns the access type override for this type
*/
DefaultType getOverride();
/**
* This returns the Namespace
annotation that was
* declared on the type. If no annotation has been declared on the
* type this will return null as not belonging to any.
*
* @return this returns the namespace this type belongs to, if any
*/
Namespace getNamespace();
/**
* This returns the NamespaceList
annotation that was
* declared on the type. A list of namespaces are used to simply
* declare the namespaces without specifically making the type
* belong to any of the declared namespaces.
*
* @return this returns the namespace declarations, if any
*/
NamespaceList getNamespaceList();
/**
* This returns a list of the methods that belong to this type.
* The methods here do not include any methods from the super
* types and simply provides a means of caching method data.
*
* @return returns the list of methods declared for the type
*/
List getMethods();
/**
* This returns a list of the fields that belong to this type.
* The fields here do not include any fields from the super
* types and simply provides a means of caching method data.
*
* @return returns the list of fields declared for the type
*/
List getFields();
/**
* This returns the annotations that have been declared for this
* type. It is preferable to acquire the declared annotations
* from this method as they are cached. Older versions of some
* runtime environments, particularly Android, are slow at this.
*
* @return this returns the annotations associated with this
*/
Annotation[] getAnnotations();
/**
* This returns the constructors that have been declared for this
* type. It is preferable to acquire the declared constructors
* from this method as they are cached. Older versions of some
* runtime environments, particularly Android, are slow at this.
*
* @return this returns the constructors associated with this
*/
Constructor[] getConstructors();
}