packages/java.lang.reflect/src/jannotatedelement.ts
/**
* Represents an annotated element of the program currently running in this
* VM. This interface allows annotations to be read reflectively. All
* annotations returned by methods in this interface are immutable and
* serializable. The arrays returned by methods of this interface may be modified
* by callers without affecting the arrays returned to other callers.
*
* <p>The {@link #getAnnotationsByType(Class)} and {@link#getDeclaredAnnotationsByType(Class)}
* methods support multiple annotations of the same type on an element.
* If the argument to either method is a repeatable annotation type (JLS 9.6),
* then the method will "look through" a container annotation (JLS 9.7),
* if present, and return any annotations inside the container.
* Container annotations may be generated at compile-time to wrap multiple
* annotations of the argument type.
*
* <p>The terms <em>directly present</em>, <em>indirectly present</em>,
* <em>present</em>, and <em>associated</em> are used throughout this
* interface to describe precisely which annotations are returned by
* methods:
*
* <ul>
*
* <li> An annotation <i>A</i> is <em>directly present</em> on an
* element <i>E</i> if <i>E</i> has a {@code
* RuntimeVisibleAnnotations} or {@code
* RuntimeVisibleParameterAnnotations} or {@code
* RuntimeVisibleTypeAnnotations} attribute, and the attribute
* contains <i>A</i>.
*
* <li>An annotation <i>A</i> is <em>indirectly present</em> on an
* element <i>E</i> if <i>E</i> has a {@code RuntimeVisibleAnnotations} or
* {@code RuntimeVisibleParameterAnnotations} or {@code RuntimeVisibleTypeAnnotations}
* attribute, and <i>A</i> 's type is repeatable, and the attribute contains
* exactly one annotation whose _value element contains <i>A</i> and whose
* type is the containing annotation type of <i>A</i> 's type.
*
* <li>An annotation <i>A</i> is present on an element <i>E</i> if either:
*
* <ul>
*
* <li><i>A</i> is directly present on <i>E</i>; or
*
* <li>No annotation of <i>A</i> 's type is directly present on
* <i>E</i>, and <i>E</i> is a class, and <i>A</i> 's type is
* inheritable, and <i>A</i> is present on the superclass of <i>E</i>.
*
* </ul>
*
* <li>An annotation <i>A</i> is <em>associated</em> with an element <i>E</i>
* if either:
*
* <ul>
*
* <li><i>A</i> is directly or indirectly present on <i>E</i>; or
*
* <li>No annotation of <i>A</i> 's type is directly or indirectly
* present on <i>E</i>, and <i>E</i> is a class, and <i>A</i>'s type
* is inheritable, and <i>A</i> is associated with the superclass of
* <i>E</i>.
*
* </ul>
*
* </ul>
*
* <p>The table below summarizes which kind of annotation presence
* different methods in this interface examine.
*
* <table border>
* <caption>Overview of kind of presence detected by different AnnotatedElement methods</caption>
* <tr><th colspan=2></th><th colspan=4>Kind of Presence</th>
* <tr><th colspan=2>Method</th><th>Directly Present</th><th>Indirectly Present</th><th>Present</th><th>Associated</th>
* <tr><td align=right>{@code T}</td><td>{@link #getAnnotation(Class) getAnnotation(Class<T>)}
* <td></td><td></td><td>X</td><td></td>
* </tr>
* <tr><td align=right>{@code Annotation[]}</td><td>{@link #getAnnotations getAnnotations()}
* <td></td><td></td><td>X</td><td></td>
* </tr>
* <tr><td align=right>{@code T[]}</td><td>{@link #getAnnotationsByType(Class) getAnnotationsByType(Class<T>)}
* <td></td><td></td><td></td><td>X</td>
* </tr>
* <tr><td align=right>{@code T}</td><td>{@link #getDeclaredAnnotation(Class) getDeclaredAnnotation(Class<T>)}
* <td>X</td><td></td><td></td><td></td>
* </tr>
* <tr><td align=right>{@code Annotation[]}</td><td>{@link #getDeclaredAnnotations getDeclaredAnnotations()}
* <td>X</td><td></td><td></td><td></td>
* </tr>
* <tr><td align=right>{@code T[]}</td><td>{@link #getDeclaredAnnotationsByType(Class) getDeclaredAnnotationsByType(Class<T>)}
* <td>X</td><td>X</td><td></td><td></td>
* </tr>
* </table>
*
* <p>For an invocation of {@code get[Declared]AnnotationsByType( Class <
* T >)}, the order of annotations which are directly or indirectly
* present on an element <i>E</i> is computed as if indirectly present
* annotations on <i>E</i> are directly present on <i>E</i> in place
* of their container annotation, in the order in which they appear in
* the _value element of the container annotation.
*
* <p>There are several compatibility concerns to keep in mind if an
* annotation type <i>T</i> is originally <em>not</em> repeatable and
* later modified to be repeatable.
*
* The containing annotation type for <i>T</i> is <i>TC</i>.
*
* <ul>
*
* <li>Modifying <i>T</i> to be repeatable is source and binary
* compatible with existing uses of <i>T</i> and with existing uses
* of <i>TC</i>.
*
* That is, for source compatibility, source code with annotations of
* type <i>T</i> or of type <i>TC</i> will still compile. For binary
* compatibility, class files with annotations of type <i>T</i> or of
* type <i>TC</i> (or with other kinds of uses of type <i>T</i> or of
* type <i>TC</i>) will link against the modified version of <i>T</i>
* if they linked against the earlier version.
*
* (An annotation type <i>TC</i> may informally serve as an acting
* containing annotation type before <i>T</i> is modified to be
* formally repeatable. Alternatively, when <i>T</i> is made
* repeatable, <i>TC</i> can be introduced as a new type.)
*
* <li>If an annotation type <i>TC</i> is present on an element, and
* <i>T</i> is modified to be repeatable with <i>TC</i> as its
* containing annotation type then:
*
* <ul>
*
* <li>The change to <i>T</i> is behaviorally compatible with respect
* to the {@code get[Declared]Annotation(Class<T>)} (called with an
* argument of <i>T</i> or <i>TC</i>) and {@code
* get[Declared]Annotations()} methods because the results of the
* methods will not change due to <i>TC</i> becoming the containing
* annotation type for <i>T</i>.
*
* <li>The change to <i>T</i> changes the results of the {@code
* get[Declared]AnnotationsByType(Class<T>)} methods called with an
* argument of <i>T</i>, because those methods will now recognize an
* annotation of type <i>TC</i> as a container annotation for <i>T</i>
* and will "look through" it to expose annotations of type <i>T</i>.
*
* </ul>
*
* <li>If an annotation of type <i>T</i> is present on an
* element and <i>T</i> is made repeatable and more annotations of
* type <i>T</i> are added to the element:
*
* <ul>
*
* <li> The addition of the annotations of type <i>T</i> is both
* source compatible and binary compatible.
*
* <li>The addition of the annotations of type <i>T</i> changes the results
* of the {@code get[Declared]Annotation(Class<T>)} methods and {@code
* get[Declared]Annotations()} methods, because those methods will now
* only see a container annotation on the element and not see an
* annotation of type <i>T</i>.
*
* <li>The addition of the annotations of type <i>T</i> changes the
* results of the {@code get[Declared]AnnotationsByType(Class<T>)}
* methods, because their results will expose the additional
* annotations of type <i>T</i> whereas previously they exposed only a
* single annotation of type <i>T</i>.
*
* </ul>
*
* </ul>
*
* <p>If an annotation returned by a method in this interface contains
* (directly or indirectly) a {@link Class}-valued member referring to
* a class that is not accessible in this VM, attempting to read the class
* by calling the relevant Class-returning method on the returned annotation
* will result in a {@link TypeNotPresentException}.
*
* <p>Similarly, attempting to read an enum-valued member will result in
* a {@link EnumConstantNotPresentException} if the enum constant in the
* annotation is no longer present in the enum type.
*
* <p>If an annotation type <i>T</i> is (meta-)annotated with an
* {@code @Repeatable} annotation whose _value element indicates a type
* <i>TC</i>, but <i>TC</i> does not declare a {@code _value()} method
* with a return type of <i>T</i>{@code []}, then an exception of type
* {@link java.lang.annotation.AnnotationFormatError} is thrown.
*
* <p>Finally, attempting to read a member whose definition has evolved
* incompatibly will result in a {@link
* java.lang.annotation.AnnotationTypeMismatchException} or an
* {@link java.lang.annotation.IncompleteAnnotationException}.
*
* @see java.lang.EnumConstantNotPresentException
* @see java.lang.TypeNotPresentException
* @see AnnotationFormatError
* @see java.lang.annotation.AnnotationTypeMismatchException
* @see java.lang.annotation.IncompleteAnnotationException
* @since 1.5
* @author Josh Bloch
*/
export interface JAnnotatedElement {
/**
* Returns this element's annotation for the specified type if
* such an annotation is <em>present</em>, else null.
*
* @param <T> the type of the annotation to query for and return if present
* @param annotationClass the Class object corresponding to the
* annotation type
* @return this element's annotation for the specified annotation type if
* present on this element, else null
* @throws NullPointerException if the given annotation class is null
* @since 1.5
*/
// getAnnotation(annotationClass: JClass<T>): T;
/**
* Returns annotations that are <em>present</em> on this element.
*
* If there are no annotations <em>present</em> on this element, the return
* _value is an array of length 0.
*
* The caller of this method is free to modify the returned array; it will
* have no effect on the arrays returned to other callers.
*
* @return annotations present on this element
* @since 1.5
*/
// getAnnotations(): JArray<JAnnotation>
/**
* Returns annotations that are <em>associated</em> with this element.
*
* If there are no annotations <em>associated</em> with this element, the return
* _value is an array of length 0.
*
* The difference between this method and {@link #getAnnotation(Class)}
* is that this method detects if its argument is a <em>repeatable
* annotation type</em> (JLS 9.6), and if so, attempts to find one or
* more annotations of that type by "looking through" a container
* annotation.
*
* The caller of this method is free to modify the returned array; it will
* have no effect on the arrays returned to other callers.
*
* @implSpec The default implementation first calls {@link
* #getDeclaredAnnotationsByType(Class)} passing {@code
* annotationClass} as the argument. If the returned array has
* length greater than zero, the array is returned. If the returned
* array is zero-length and this {@code AnnotatedElement} is a
* class and the argument type is an inheritable annotation type,
* and the superclass of this {@code AnnotatedElement} is non-null,
* then the returned result is the result of calling {@link
* #getAnnotationsByType(Class)} on the superclass with {@code
* annotationClass} as the argument. Otherwise, a zero-length
* array is returned.
*
* @param <T> the type of the annotation to query for and return if present
* @param annotationClass the Class object corresponding to the
* annotation type
* @return all this element's annotations for the specified annotation type if
* associated with this element, else an array of length zero
* @throws NullPointerException if the given annotation class is null
* @since 1.8
*/
// getAnnotationsByType(annotationClass: JClass<T>): Jarray<T>; // TODO see default implementation?
/**
* Returns this element's annotation for the specified type if
* such an annotation is <em>directly present</em>, else null.
*
* This method ignores inherited annotations. (Returns null if no
* annotations are directly present on this element.)
*
* @implSpec The default implementation first performs a null check
* and then loops over the results of {@link
* #getDeclaredAnnotations} returning the first annotation whose
* annotation type matches the argument type.
*
* @param <T> the type of the annotation to query for and return if directly present
* @param annotationClass the Class object corresponding to the
* annotation type
* @return this element's annotation for the specified annotation type if
* directly present on this element, else null
* @throws NullPointerException if the given annotation class is null
* @since 1.8
*/
// getDeclaredAnnotation(annotationClass: JClass<T>): T; // TODO see default implementation?
/**
* Returns annotations that are <em>directly present</em> on this element.
* This method ignores inherited annotations.
*
* If there are no annotations <em>directly present</em> on this element,
* the return _value is an array of length 0.
*
* The caller of this method is free to modify the returned array; it will
* have no effect on the arrays returned to other callers.
*
* @return annotations directly present on this element
* @since 1.5
*/
// getDeclaredAnnotations(): JArray<JAnnotation>;
/**
* Returns this element's annotation(s) for the specified type if
* such annotations are either <em>directly present</em> or
* <em>indirectly present</em>. This method ignores inherited
* annotations.
*
* If there are no specified annotations directly or indirectly
* present on this element, the return _value is an array of length
* 0.
*
* The difference between this method and {@link
* #getDeclaredAnnotation(Class)} is that this method detects if its
* argument is a <em>repeatable annotation type</em> (JLS 9.6), and if so,
* attempts to find one or more annotations of that type by "looking
* through" a container annotation if one is present.
*
* The caller of this method is free to modify the returned array; it will
* have no effect on the arrays returned to other callers.
*
* @implSpec The default implementation may call {@link
* #getDeclaredAnnotation(Class)} one or more times to find a
* directly present annotation and, if the annotation type is
* repeatable, to find a container annotation. If annotations of
* the annotation type {@code annotationClass} are found to be both
* directly and indirectly present, then {@link
* #getDeclaredAnnotations()} will get called to determine the
* order of the elements in the returned array.
*
* <p>Alternatively, the default implementation may call {@link
* #getDeclaredAnnotations()} a single time and the returned array
* examined for both directly and indirectly present
* annotations. The results of calling {@link
* #getDeclaredAnnotations()} are assumed to be consistent with the
* results of calling {@link #getDeclaredAnnotation(Class)}.
*
* @param <T> the type of the annotation to query for and return
* if directly or indirectly present
* @param annotationClass the Class object corresponding to the
* annotation type
* @return all this element's annotations for the specified annotation type if
* directly or indirectly present on this element, else an array of length zero
* @throws NullPointerException if the given annotation class is null
* @since 1.8
*/
// getDeclaredAnnotationsByType(annotationClass: JClass<T>): Jarray<T>; // TODO see implementation?
}