org.apache.felix.scrplugin.annotations
Interface AnnotationProcessor

All Known Implementing Classes:

AnnotationProcessorManager

public interface AnnotationProcessor

This service provides a plugin for annotation processing. Custom tags can be processed. On a scanned class all available annotation processors are called in order of their getRanking() value (lowest value first).

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getName() A user friendly name
int	getRanking() The ranking of this processor.
void	process(ScannedClass scannedClass, ClassDescription describedClass) Processes annotations from the provided scanned class and adds descriptions to the object model based on the read annotations.

Method Detail

process

void process(ScannedClass scannedClass,
             ClassDescription describedClass)
             throws SCRDescriptorException,
                    SCRDescriptorFailureException

Processes annotations from the provided scanned class and adds descriptions to the object model based on the read annotations. If this service processes an annotation, it should remove this annotation from the provided list to avoid duplicate processing by other processors (with higher ranking)

Parameters:

scannedClass - The scanned class.

describedClass - The description container.

Throws:

SCRDescriptorException

SCRDescriptorFailureException

getName

java.lang.String getName()

A user friendly name

getRanking

int getRanking()

The ranking of this processor.