diff -r 000000000000 -r 959103a6100f src/share/classes/javax/lang/model/element/AnnotationValueVisitor.java --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/src/share/classes/javax/lang/model/element/AnnotationValueVisitor.java Wed Apr 27 01:34:52 2016 +0800 @@ -0,0 +1,214 @@ +/* + * Copyright (c) 2005, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. + * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. + * + * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as + * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this + * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided + * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. + * + * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT + * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or + * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License + * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that + * accompanied this code). + * + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version + * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, + * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. + * + * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA + * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any + * questions. + */ + +package javax.lang.model.element; + + +import java.util.List; + +import javax.lang.model.type.TypeMirror; + + +/** + * A visitor of the values of annotation type elements, using a + * variant of the visitor design pattern. Unlike a standard visitor + * which dispatches based on the concrete type of a member of a type + * hierarchy, this visitor dispatches based on the type of data + * stored; there are no distinct subclasses for storing, for example, + * {@code boolean} values versus {@code int} values. Classes + * implementing this interface are used to operate on a value when the + * type of that value is unknown at compile time. When a visitor is + * passed to a value's {@link AnnotationValue#accept accept} method, + * the visitXYZ method applicable to that value is + * invoked. + * + *
Classes implementing this interface may or may not throw a + * {@code NullPointerException} if the additional parameter {@code p} + * is {@code null}; see documentation of the implementing class for + * details. + * + *
WARNING: It is possible that methods will be added to + * this interface to accommodate new, currently unknown, language + * structures added to future versions of the Java™ programming + * language. Therefore, visitor classes directly implementing this + * interface may be source incompatible with future versions of the + * platform. To avoid this source incompatibility, visitor + * implementations are encouraged to instead extend the appropriate + * abstract visitor class that implements this interface. However, an + * API should generally use this visitor interface as the type for + * parameters, return type, etc. rather than one of the abstract + * classes. + * + *
Note that methods to accommodate new language constructs could
+ * be added in a source compatible way if they were added as
+ * default methods. However, default methods are only
+ * available on Java SE 8 and higher releases and the {@code
+ * javax.lang.model.*} packages bundled in Java SE 8 are required to
+ * also be runnable on Java SE 7. Therefore, default methods
+ * cannot be used when extending {@code javax.lang.model.*}
+ * to cover Java SE 8 language features. However, default methods may
+ * be used in subsequent revisions of the {@code javax.lang.model.*}
+ * packages that are only required to run on Java SE 8 and higher
+ * platform versions.
+ *
+ * @param the type of the additional parameter to this visitor's methods.
+ * @author Joseph D. Darcy
+ * @author Scott Seligman
+ * @author Peter von der Ahé
+ * @since 1.6
+ */
+public interface AnnotationValueVisitor