annotationprocessorfactory.java

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/*
 * @(#)AnnotationProcessorFactory.java	1.10 05/11/17
 *
 * Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL.  Use is subject to license terms.
 */

package com.sun.mirror.apt;


import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Set;

import com.sun.mirror.declaration.AnnotationTypeDeclaration;


/**
 * A factory for creating annotation processors.
 * Each factory is responsible for creating processors for one or more
 * annotation types.
 * The factory is said to <i>support</i> these types.
 *
 * <p> Each implementation of an <tt>AnnotationProcessorFactory</tt>
 * must provide a public no-argument constructor to be used by tools to
 * instantiate the factory.
 *
 * @author Joseph D. Darcy
 * @author Scott Seligman
 * @version 1.10 05/11/17
 * @since 1.5
 */

public interface AnnotationProcessorFactory {

    /**
     * Returns the options recognized by this factory or by any of the
     * processors it may create.
     * Only {@linkplain AnnotationProcessorEnvironment#getOptions()
     * processor-specific} options are included, each of which begins
     * with <tt>"-A"</tt>.  For example, if this factory recognizes
     * options such as <tt>-Adebug -Aloglevel=3</tt>, it will
     * return the strings <tt>"-Adebug"</tt> and <tt>"-Aloglevel"</tt>.
     *
     * <p> A tool might use this information to determine if any
     * options provided by a user are unrecognized by any processor,
     * in which case it may wish to report an error.
     *
     * @return the options recognized by this factory or by any of the
     * processors it may create, or an empty collection if none
     */
    Collection<String> supportedOptions();

    /**
     * Returns the names of the annotation types supported by this factory.
     * An element of the result may be the canonical (fully qualified) name
     * of a supported annotation type.  Alternately it may be of the form
     * <tt>"<i>name</i>.*"</tt>
     * representing the set of all annotation types
     * with canonical names beginning with <tt>"<i>name</i>."</tt>
     * Finally, <tt>"*"</tt> by itself represents the set of all
     * annotation types.
     *
     * @return the names of the annotation types supported by this factory
     */
    Collection<String> supportedAnnotationTypes();

    /**
     * Returns an annotation processor for a set of annotation
     * types. The set will be empty if the factory supports
     * &quot;<tt>*</tt>&quot; and the specified type declarations have
     * no annotations.  Note that the set of annotation types may be
     * empty for other reasons, such as giving the factory an
     * opportunity to register a listener.  An
     * <tt>AnnotationProcessorFactory</tt> must gracefully handle an
     * empty set of annotations; an appropriate response to an empty
     * set will often be returning {@link AnnotationProcessors#NO_OP}.
     *
     * @param atds type declarations of the annotation types to be processed
     * @param env  environment to use during processing
     * @return an annotation processor for the given annotation types,
     *		or <tt>null</tt> if the types are not supported or the
     *		processor cannot be created
     */
    AnnotationProcessor getProcessorFor(Set<AnnotationTypeDeclaration> atds,
					AnnotationProcessorEnvironment env);
}