org.apache.bval.jsr303
Class AnnotationProcessor

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.bval.jsr303.AnnotationProcessor

public final class AnnotationProcessor
extends Object

Description: implements uniform handling of JSR303 Constraint annotations, including composed constraints and the resolution of ConstraintValidator implementations.

Constructor Summary

AnnotationProcessor(ApacheFactoryContext factoryContext)
Create a new AnnotationProcessor instance.

Method Summary

boolean	addAccessStrategy(MetaProperty prop, AccessStrategy access) Add the specified AccessStrategy to prop; noop if prop == null.
<A extends Annotation> boolean	processAnnotation(A annotation, Class<?> owner, AppendValidation appender) Convenience method to process a single class-level annotation.
<A extends Annotation> boolean	processAnnotation(A annotation, MetaProperty prop, Class<?> owner, AccessStrategy access, AppendValidation appender) Process a single annotation.
boolean	processAnnotations(MetaProperty prop, Class<?> owner, AnnotatedElement element, AccessStrategy access, AppendValidation appender) Process JSR303 annotations.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AnnotationProcessor

public AnnotationProcessor(ApacheFactoryContext factoryContext)

Create a new AnnotationProcessor instance.

Parameters:

factoryContext -

Method Detail

processAnnotations

public boolean processAnnotations(MetaProperty prop,
                                  Class<?> owner,
                                  AnnotatedElement element,
                                  AccessStrategy access,
                                  AppendValidation appender)
                           throws IllegalAccessException,
                                  InvocationTargetException

Process JSR303 annotations.

Parameters:

prop - potentially null

owner - bean type

element - whose annotations to read

access - strategy for prop

appender - handling accumulation

Returns:

whether any processing took place

Throws:

IllegalAccessException

InvocationTargetException

processAnnotation

public final <A extends Annotation> boolean processAnnotation(A annotation,
                                                              Class<?> owner,
                                                              AppendValidation appender)
                                throws IllegalAccessException,
                                       InvocationTargetException

Convenience method to process a single class-level annotation.

Type Parameters:

A - annotation type

Parameters:

annotation - to process

owner - bean type

appender - handling accumulation

Returns:

whether any processing took place

Throws:

IllegalAccessException

InvocationTargetException

processAnnotation

public <A extends Annotation> boolean processAnnotation(A annotation,
                                                        MetaProperty prop,
                                                        Class<?> owner,
                                                        AccessStrategy access,
                                                        AppendValidation appender)
                          throws IllegalAccessException,
                                 InvocationTargetException

Process a single annotation.

Type Parameters:

A - annotation type

Parameters:

annotation - to process

prop - potentially null

owner - bean type

access - strategy for prop

appender - handling accumulation

Returns:

whether any processing took place

Throws:

IllegalAccessException

InvocationTargetException

addAccessStrategy

public boolean addAccessStrategy(MetaProperty prop,
                                 AccessStrategy access)

Add the specified AccessStrategy to prop; noop if prop == null.

Parameters:

prop -

access -

Returns:

whether anything took place.