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package shaded.shaded.com.google.errorprone.annotations;

import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.CLASS;

import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

/**
 * Annotation for method parameter declarations, which denotes that corresponding actual parameters
 * must be compile-time constant expressions.
 *
 * 

When the formal parameter of a method or constructor is annotated with the {@link * CompileTimeConstant} type annotation, the corresponding actual parameter must be an expression * that satisfies one of the following conditions: * *

    *
  1. The expression is one for which the Java compiler can determine a constant value at compile * time, or *
  2. the expression consists of the literal {@code null}, or *
  3. the expression consists of a single identifier, where the identifier is a formal method * parameter that is declared {@code final} and has the {@link CompileTimeConstant} * annotation. *
* *

This constraint on call sites of methods or constructors that have one or more formal * parameters with this annotation is enforced by error-prone. * *

For example, the following code snippet is legal: * *

{@code
 * public class C {
 *   private static final S = "Hello";
 *   void m(@CompileTimeConstant final String s) { }
 *   void n(@CompileTimeConstant final String t) {
 *     m(S + " World!");
 *     m(null);
 *     m(t);
 *   }
 * }
 * }
* *

In contrast, the following is illegal: * *

{@code
 * public class C {
 *   void m(@CompileTimeConstant final String s) { }
 *   void n(String t) {
 *     m(t);
 *   }
 * }
 * }
* *

Compile-time constant values are implicitly under the control of the trust domain of the * application whose source code they are part of. Hence, this annotation is useful to constrain the * use of APIs that may only be safely called with values that are under application control. * *

The current implementation of the @CompileTimeConstant checker cannot reason about more * complex scenarios, for example, returning compile-time-constant values from a method, or storing * compile-time-constant values in a collection. APIs will typically accommodate such use cases via * domain-specific types that capture domain-specific aspects of trustworthiness that arise from * values being under application control. */ @Documented @Retention(CLASS) @Target({ElementType.PARAMETER}) public @interface CompileTimeConstant {}





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