ASM: a very small and fast Java bytecode manipulation framework
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/***
 * ASM: a very small and fast Java bytecode manipulation framework
 * Copyright (c) 2000-2011 INRIA, France Telecom
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 * are met:
 * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
 *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 * 3. Neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of its
 *    contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
 *    this software without specific prior written permission.
 *
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package org.objectweb.asm;

A visitor to visit a Java annotation. The methods of this class must be
called in the following order: ( visit | visitEnum |
visitAnnotation | visitArray )* visitEnd.
Author:
Eric Bruneton, Eugene Kuleshov/**
 * A visitor to visit a Java annotation. The methods of this class must be
 * called in the following order: ( <tt>visit</tt> | <tt>visitEnum</tt> |
 * <tt>visitAnnotation</tt> | <tt>visitArray</tt> )* <tt>visitEnd</tt>.
 * 
 * @author Eric Bruneton
 * @author Eugene Kuleshov
 */
public abstract class AnnotationVisitor {

    
The ASM API version implemented by this visitor. The value of this field must be one of Opcodes.ASM4. /**
     * The ASM API version implemented by this visitor. The value of this field
     * must be one of {@link Opcodes#ASM4}.
     */
    protected final int api;

    
The annotation visitor to which this visitor must delegate method calls.
May be null.
/**
     * The annotation visitor to which this visitor must delegate method calls.
     * May be null.
     */
    protected AnnotationVisitor av;

    
Constructs a new AnnotationVisitor. 
Params:
api –  the ASM API version implemented by this visitor. Must be one of Opcodes.ASM4./**
     * Constructs a new {@link AnnotationVisitor}.
     * 
     * @param api
     *            the ASM API version implemented by this visitor. Must be one
     *            of {@link Opcodes#ASM4}.
     */
    public AnnotationVisitor(final int api) {
        this(api, null);
    }

    
Constructs a new AnnotationVisitor. 
Params:
api –  the ASM API version implemented by this visitor. Must be one of Opcodes.ASM4.
av – 
           the annotation visitor to which this visitor must delegate
           method calls. May be null./**
     * Constructs a new {@link AnnotationVisitor}.
     * 
     * @param api
     *            the ASM API version implemented by this visitor. Must be one
     *            of {@link Opcodes#ASM4}.
     * @param av
     *            the annotation visitor to which this visitor must delegate
     *            method calls. May be null.
     */
    public AnnotationVisitor(final int api, final AnnotationVisitor av) {
        if (api != Opcodes.ASM4) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException();
        }
        this.api = api;
        this.av = av;
    }

    
Visits a primitive value of the annotation.
Params:
name – 
           the value name.
value –  the actual value, whose type must be Byte, Boolean, Character, Short, Integer , Long, Float, Double, String or Type or OBJECT or ARRAY sort. This value can also be an array of byte, boolean, short, char, int, long, float or double values (this is equivalent to using visitArray and visiting each array element in turn, but is more convenient)./**
     * Visits a primitive value of the annotation.
     * 
     * @param name
     *            the value name.
     * @param value
     *            the actual value, whose type must be {@link Byte},
     *            {@link Boolean}, {@link Character}, {@link Short},
     *            {@link Integer} , {@link Long}, {@link Float}, {@link Double},
     *            {@link String} or {@link Type} or OBJECT or ARRAY sort. This
     *            value can also be an array of byte, boolean, short, char, int,
     *            long, float or double values (this is equivalent to using
     *            {@link #visitArray visitArray} and visiting each array element
     *            in turn, but is more convenient).
     */
    public void visit(String name, Object value) {
        if (av != null) {
            av.visit(name, value);
        }
    }

    
Visits an enumeration value of the annotation.
Params:
name – 
           the value name.
desc – 
           the class descriptor of the enumeration class.
value – 
           the actual enumeration value./**
     * Visits an enumeration value of the annotation.
     * 
     * @param name
     *            the value name.
     * @param desc
     *            the class descriptor of the enumeration class.
     * @param value
     *            the actual enumeration value.
     */
    public void visitEnum(String name, String desc, String value) {
        if (av != null) {
            av.visitEnum(name, desc, value);
        }
    }

    
Visits a nested annotation value of the annotation.
Params:
name – 
           the value name.
desc – 
           the class descriptor of the nested annotation class.
Returns:
a visitor to visit the actual nested annotation value, or
        null if this visitor is not interested in visiting this
        nested annotation. The nested annotation value must be fully
        visited before calling other methods on this annotation
        visitor./**
     * Visits a nested annotation value of the annotation.
     * 
     * @param name
     *            the value name.
     * @param desc
     *            the class descriptor of the nested annotation class.
     * @return a visitor to visit the actual nested annotation value, or
     *         <tt>null</tt> if this visitor is not interested in visiting this
     *         nested annotation. <i>The nested annotation value must be fully
     *         visited before calling other methods on this annotation
     *         visitor</i>.
     */
    public AnnotationVisitor visitAnnotation(String name, String desc) {
        if (av != null) {
            return av.visitAnnotation(name, desc);
        }
        return null;
    }

    
Visits an array value of the annotation. Note that arrays of primitive types (such as byte, boolean, short, char, int, long, float or double) can be passed as value to visit. This is what ClassReader does. 
Params:
name – 
           the value name.
Returns:
a visitor to visit the actual array value elements, or
        null if this visitor is not interested in visiting these
        values. The 'name' parameters passed to the methods of this
        visitor are ignored. All the array values must be visited
        before calling other methods on this annotation visitor./**
     * Visits an array value of the annotation. Note that arrays of primitive
     * types (such as byte, boolean, short, char, int, long, float or double)
     * can be passed as value to {@link #visit visit}. This is what
     * {@link ClassReader} does.
     * 
     * @param name
     *            the value name.
     * @return a visitor to visit the actual array value elements, or
     *         <tt>null</tt> if this visitor is not interested in visiting these
     *         values. The 'name' parameters passed to the methods of this
     *         visitor are ignored. <i>All the array values must be visited
     *         before calling other methods on this annotation visitor</i>.
     */
    public AnnotationVisitor visitArray(String name) {
        if (av != null) {
            return av.visitArray(name);
        }
        return null;
    }

    
Visits the end of the annotation.
/**
     * Visits the end of the annotation.
     */
    public void visitEnd() {
        if (av != null) {
            av.visitEnd();
        }
    }
}