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package javax.lang.model.util;

import static javax.lang.model.SourceVersion.*;

import javax.lang.model.SourceVersion;

import javax.annotation.processing.SupportedSourceVersion;

/**

 * A skeletal visitor for annotation values with default behavior

 * appropriate for the {@link SourceVersion#RELEASE_8 RELEASE_8}

 * source version.

 *

 * <p> <b>WARNING:</b> The {@code AnnotationValueVisitor} interface

 * implemented by this class may have methods added to it in the

 * future to accommodate new, currently unknown, language structures

 * added to future versions of the Java™ programming language.

 * Therefore, methods whose names begin with {@code "visit"} may be

 * added to this class in the future; to avoid incompatibilities,

 * classes which extend this class should not declare any instance

 * methods with names beginning with {@code "visit"}.

 *

 * <p>When such a new visit method is added, the default

 * implementation in this class will be to call the {@link

 * #visitUnknown visitUnknown} method.  A new abstract annotation

 * value visitor class will also be introduced to correspond to the

 * new language level; this visitor will have different default

 * behavior for the visit method in question.  When the new visitor is

 * introduced, all or portions of this visitor may be deprecated.

 *

 * <p>Note that adding a default implementation of a new visit method

 * in a visitor class will occur instead of adding a <em>default

 * method</em> directly in the visitor interface since a Java SE 8

 * language feature cannot be used to this version of the API since

 * this version is required to be runnable on Java SE 7

 * implementations.  Future versions of the API that are only required

 * to run on Java SE 8 and later may take advantage of default methods

 * in this situation.

 *

 * @param <R> the return type of this visitor's methods

 * @param <P> the type of the additional parameter to this visitor's methods.

 *

 * @see AbstractAnnotationValueVisitor6

 * @see AbstractAnnotationValueVisitor7

 * @see AbstractAnnotationValueVisitor9

 * @since 1.8

 */

@SupportedSourceVersion(RELEASE_8)

public abstract class AbstractAnnotationValueVisitor8<R, P> extends AbstractAnnotationValueVisitor7<R, P> {

    /**

     * Constructor for concrete subclasses to call.

     */

    protected AbstractAnnotationValueVisitor8() {

        super();

    }

}