Copyright (c) 2000, 2013 IBM Corporation and others.
This program and the accompanying materials
are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
Contributors:
    IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
    Andy Clement (GoPivotal, Inc) aclement@gopivotal.com - Contributions for
        Bug 407191 - [1.8] Binary access support for type annotations
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2013 IBM Corporation and others.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *     Andy Clement (GoPivotal, Inc) aclement@gopivotal.com - Contributions for
 *         Bug 407191 - [1.8] Binary access support for type annotations
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.env;

import org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.impl.Constant;

public interface IBinaryField extends IGenericField {
Answer the runtime visible and invisible annotations for this field or null if none.
/**
 * Answer the runtime visible and invisible annotations for this field or null if none.
 */
IBinaryAnnotation[] getAnnotations();

Answer the runtime visible and invisible type annotations for this field or null if none.
/**
 * Answer the runtime visible and invisible type annotations for this field or null if none.
 */
IBinaryTypeAnnotation[] getTypeAnnotations();

Returns:
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.Constant/**
 *
 * @return org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.Constant
 */
Constant getConstant();

Answer the receiver's FieldSignature, which describes the field's type
as specified in "4.7.9.1 Signatures" of the Java SE 8 VM spec.
/**
 * Answer the receiver's FieldSignature, which describes the field's type
 * as specified in "4.7.9.1 Signatures" of the Java SE 8 VM spec.
 */
char[] getGenericSignature();

Answer the name of the field.
/**
 * Answer the name of the field.
 */
char[] getName();

Answer the tagbits set according to the bits for annotations.
/**
 * Answer the tagbits set according to the bits for annotations.
 */
long getTagBits();

Answer the resolved name of the receiver's type in the
class file format as specified in section 4.3.2 of the Java 2 VM spec.
For example:
  - java.lang.String is Ljava/lang/String;
  - an int is I
  - a 2 dimensional array of strings is [[Ljava/lang/String;
  - an array of floats is [F
/**
 * Answer the resolved name of the receiver's type in the
 * class file format as specified in section 4.3.2 of the Java 2 VM spec.
 *
 * For example:
 *   - java.lang.String is Ljava/lang/String;
 *   - an int is I
 *   - a 2 dimensional array of strings is [[Ljava/lang/String;
 *   - an array of floats is [F
 */
char[] getTypeName();
}