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.
 *
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
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package org.objectweb.asm;

A visitor to visit a Java field. The methods of this class must be called in
the following order: ( visitAnnotation | visitAttribute )*
visitEnd.
Author:
Eric Bruneton/**
 * A visitor to visit a Java field. The methods of this class must be called in
 * the following order: ( <tt>visitAnnotation</tt> | <tt>visitAttribute</tt> )*
 * <tt>visitEnd</tt>.
 * 
 * @author Eric Bruneton
 */
public abstract class FieldVisitor {

    
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 field visitor to which this visitor must delegate method calls. May
be null.
/**
     * The field visitor to which this visitor must delegate method calls. May
     * be null.
     */
    protected FieldVisitor fv;

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

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

    
Visits an annotation of the field.
Params:
desc – 
           the class descriptor of the annotation class.
visible – 
           true if the annotation is visible at runtime.
Returns:
a visitor to visit the annotation values, or null if
        this visitor is not interested in visiting this annotation./**
     * Visits an annotation of the field.
     * 
     * @param desc
     *            the class descriptor of the annotation class.
     * @param visible
     *            <tt>true</tt> if the annotation is visible at runtime.
     * @return a visitor to visit the annotation values, or <tt>null</tt> if
     *         this visitor is not interested in visiting this annotation.
     */
    public AnnotationVisitor visitAnnotation(String desc, boolean visible) {
        if (fv != null) {
            return fv.visitAnnotation(desc, visible);
        }
        return null;
    }

    
Visits a non standard attribute of the field.
Params:
attr – 
           an attribute./**
     * Visits a non standard attribute of the field.
     * 
     * @param attr
     *            an attribute.
     */
    public void visitAttribute(Attribute attr) {
        if (fv != null) {
            fv.visitAttribute(attr);
        }
    }

    
Visits the end of the field. This method, which is the last one to be
called, is used to inform the visitor that all the annotations and
attributes of the field have been visited.
/**
     * Visits the end of the field. This method, which is the last one to be
     * called, is used to inform the visitor that all the annotations and
     * attributes of the field have been visited.
     */
    public void visitEnd() {
        if (fv != null) {
            fv.visitEnd();
        }
    }
}