Module io.helidon.codegen

Package io.helidon.codegen.spi

Interface AnnotationMapper

public interface AnnotationMapper

Maps annotation from a single annotation instance to zero or more annotation instances.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Collection<Annotation>	mapAnnotation(CodegenContext ctx, Annotation original, ElementKind elementKind)	Map an annotation to a set of new annotations.
boolean	supportsAnnotation(Annotation annotation)	Check if the annotation is supported.

Method Details

supportsAnnotation

boolean supportsAnnotation(Annotation annotation)

Check if the annotation is supported.

Parameters:

annotation - annotation to check

Returns:

true if this mapper is interested in the annotation.

mapAnnotation

Collection<Annotation> mapAnnotation(CodegenContext ctx,
 Annotation original,
 ElementKind elementKind)

Map an annotation to a set of new annotations. The original annotation is not retained, unless part of the result of this method.

Parameters:

ctx - code generation context

original - original annotation that matches supportsAnnotation(io.helidon.common.types.Annotation)

elementKind - kind of element the annotation is on

Returns:

list of annotations to add instead of the provided annotation (may be empty to remove it), this result is used to process other mappers (except for this one)