All Known Subinterfaces:

TargetAwareAnnotationProcessingService

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseAnnotationProcessingService, BaseTargetAwareAnnotationProcessingService, JPAClassAnnotationProcessingService, JPAFieldAnnotationProcessingService
```
public interface AnnotationProcessingService
```
An AnnotationProcessingService handles multiple AnnotationProcessors and uses them to process one or more Annotations.

Since:

1.3

Author:

Alexander Eibner, Peter Schmidt, Joachim Grueneis

See Also:

AnnotationProcessor

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`addAnnotationProcessor(AnnotationProcessor annotationProcessor)`	Add an `AnnotationProcessor` to the service.
`java.util.Set<AnnotationProcessor>`	`getAnnotationProcessors()`	Returns the set of `AnnotationProcessor`s registered with this service.
`<I extends BaseNature,A extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation> boolean`	`processAnnotation(I info, A annotation)`	The processing action of this service.
`<I extends BaseNature> java.lang.annotation.Annotation[]`	`processAnnotations(I info, java.lang.annotation.Annotation[] annotations)`	Calls `processAnnotation(BaseNature, Annotation)` for each given Annotation.

- Method Detail
  - processAnnotations
```
<I extends BaseNature> java.lang.annotation.Annotation[] processAnnotations(I info,
                                                                            java.lang.annotation.Annotation[] annotations)
```
    Calls processAnnotation(BaseNature, Annotation) for each given Annotation.
    
    Parameters:
    
    info - the BaseNature (and so its PropertyHolder) that should be filled with the information read
    
    annotations - the annotations to process
    
    Returns:
    
    Annotation[] filled with unprocessed annotations
    
    See Also:
    
    processAnnotation(BaseNature, Annotation)
  - processAnnotation
```
<I extends BaseNature,A extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation> boolean processAnnotation(I info,
                                                                                                 A annotation)
```
    The processing action of this service. If an annotation is given which is not supported by this processor false is returned. Otherwise the Annotations specific processor will (try to) process the Annotation and the result of AnnotationProcessor.processAnnotation(BaseNature, Annotation) is returned.
    
    Parameters:
    
    info - the BaseNature (and so its PropertyHolder) that should be filled with the information read
    
    annotation - the annotation to process
    
    Returns:
    
    true, if the annotation was processed, false if not
    
    See Also:
    
    AnnotationProcessor
  - addAnnotationProcessor
```
void addAnnotationProcessor(AnnotationProcessor annotationProcessor)
```
    Add an AnnotationProcessor to the service.
    
    Parameters:
    
    annotationProcessor - the AnnotationProcessor to add to this service.
  - getAnnotationProcessors
```
java.util.Set<AnnotationProcessor> getAnnotationProcessors()
```
    Returns the set of AnnotationProcessors registered with this service.
    
    Returns:
    
    A set of AnnotationProcessors registered with this service.

Interface AnnotationProcessingService

Method Summary

Method Detail

processAnnotations

processAnnotation

addAnnotationProcessor

getAnnotationProcessors