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      1 /***
      2  * ASM: a very small and fast Java bytecode manipulation framework
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     30 package org.objectweb.asm;
     31 
     32 /**
     33  * A visitor to visit a Java annotation. The methods of this interface must be
     34  * called in the following order: (<tt>visit<tt> | <tt>visitEnum<tt> |
     35  * <tt>visitAnnotation<tt> | <tt>visitArray<tt>)* <tt>visitEnd<tt>.
     36  *
     37  * @author Eric Bruneton
     38  * @author Eugene Kuleshov
     39  */
     40 public interface AnnotationVisitor {
     41 
     42     /**
     43      * Visits a primitive value of the annotation.
     44      *
     45      * @param name the value name.
     46      * @param value the actual value, whose type must be {@link Byte},
     47      *        {@link Boolean}, {@link Character}, {@link Short},
     48      *        {@link Integer}, {@link Long}, {@link Float}, {@link Double},
     49      *        {@link String} or {@link Type}.
     50      */
     51     void visit(String name, Object value);
     52 
     53     /**
     54      * Visits an enumeration value of the annotation.
     55      *
     56      * @param name the value name.
     57      * @param desc the class descriptor of the enumeration class.
     58      * @param value the actual enumeration value.
     59      */
     60     void visitEnum(String name, String desc, String value);
     61 
     62     /**
     63      * Visits a nested annotation value of the annotation.
     64      *
     65      * @param name the value name.
     66      * @param desc the class descriptor of the nested annotation class.
     67      * @return a non null visitor to visit the actual nested annotation value.
     68      *         <i>The nested annotation value must be fully visited before
     69      *         calling other methods on this annotation visitor</i>.
     70      */
     71     AnnotationVisitor visitAnnotation(String name, String desc);
     72 
     73     /**
     74      * Visits an array value of the annotation.
     75      *
     76      * @param name the value name.
     77      * @return a non null visitor to visit the actual array value elements. The
     78      *         'name' parameters passed to the methods of this visitor are
     79      *         ignored. <i>All the array values must be visited before calling
     80      *         other methods on this annotation visitor</i>.
     81      */
     82     AnnotationVisitor visitArray(String name);
     83 
     84     /**
     85      * Visits the end of the annotation.
     86      */
     87     void visitEnd();
     88 }
     89