TargetAwareAnnotationProcessor (Castor JavaDoc)

All Superinterfaces:

AnnotationProcessor

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseJPAAnnotationProcessor, JPABasicProcessor, JPACacheProcessor, JPAColumnProcessor, JPAEntityProcessor, JPAEnumeratedProcessor, JPAGeneratedValueProcessor, JPAIdProcessor, JPAInheritanceProcessor, JPAJoinColumnProcessor, JPAJoinTableProcessor, JPALobProcessor, JPAManyToManyProcessor, JPAManyToOneProcessor, JPAMappedSuperclassProcessor, JPANamedNativeQueriesProcessor, JPANamedNativeQueryProcessor, JPANamedQueriesProcessor, JPANamedQueryProcessor, JPAOneToManyProcessor, JPAOneToOneProcessor, JPASequenceGeneratorClassProcessor, JPASequenceGeneratorFieldProcessor, JPATableGeneratorClassProcessor, JPATableGeneratorFieldProcessor, JPATableProcessor, JPATemporalProcessor, JPATransientProcessor, JPAVersionProcessor
```
public interface TargetAwareAnnotationProcessor
extends AnnotationProcessor
```
The interface each specific target-aware annotation processor has to fulfill.

Since:

1.3.1

Author:

Alexander Eibner, Peter Schmidt

See Also:

AnnotationProcessor

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`<I extends BaseNature,A extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation> boolean`	`processAnnotation(I info, A annotation, java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement target)`	The processing action of this processor.

Methods inherited from interface org.castor.core.annotationprocessing.AnnotationProcessor
forAnnotationClass, processAnnotation

- Method Detail
  - processAnnotation
```
<I extends BaseNature,A extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation> boolean processAnnotation(I info,
                                                                                                 A annotation,
                                                                                                 java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement target)
                                                                                          throws AnnotationTargetException
```
    The processing action of this processor. If an annotation is given which is not supported false is returned.
    
    Parameters:
    
    info - the Info class that should be filled with the information read
    
    annotation - the annotation to process
    
    target - the target (Field, Class, etc.) of the given annotation
    
    Returns:
    
    true, if the annotation was processed successfully, false if not
    
    Throws:
    
    AnnotationTargetException - if an annotation is used in a context that is not valid.
    
    See Also:
    
    AnnotatedElement