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package com.sun.xml.internal.ws.org.objectweb.asm;

/**

 * A visitor to visit a Java annotation. The methods of this interface 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 interface AnnotationVisitor {

    /**

     * 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}. 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).

     */

    void visit(String name, Object 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.

     */

    void visitEnum(String name, String desc, String value);

    /**

     * 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>.

     */

    AnnotationVisitor visitAnnotation(String name, String desc);

    /**

     * 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>.

     */

    AnnotationVisitor visitArray(String name);

    /**

     * Visits the end of the annotation.

     */

    void visitEnd();

}