org.castor.core.annotationprocessing

Interface TargetAwareAnnotationProcessor

All Superinterfaces:

AnnotationProcessor

public interface TargetAwareAnnotationProcessor
extends AnnotationProcessor

The interface each specific target-aware annotation processor has to fulfill.

Since:

1.3.1

Author:

Alexander Eibner, Peter Schmidt

See Also:

AnnotationProcessor

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
<I extends BaseNature,A extends Annotation> boolean	processAnnotation(I info, A annotation, AnnotatedElement target) The processing action of this processor.

Methods inherited from interface org.castor.core.annotationprocessing.AnnotationProcessor

forAnnotationClass, processAnnotation

Method Detail

processAnnotation

<I extends BaseNature,A extends Annotation> boolean processAnnotation(I info,
                                                                      A annotation,
                                                                      AnnotatedElement target)
                                                               throws AnnotationTargetException

The processing action of this processor. If an annotation is given which is not supported false is returned.

Parameters:

info - the Info class that should be filled with the information read

annotation - the annotation to process

target - the target (Field, Class, etc.) of the given annotation

Returns:

true, if the annotation was processed successfully, false if not

Throws:

AnnotationTargetException - if an annotation is used in a context that is not valid.

See Also:

AnnotatedElement