xapi.annotation.reflect

Annotation Type MirroredAnnotation

@Documented
 @Target(value=ANNOTATION_TYPE)
 @Retention(value=RUNTIME)
public @interface MirroredAnnotation

Using this annotation on any other annotation will tell our annotation processor to generate an annotation mirror class. Whew. In short, we generate classes to represent annotations, so we can easily get at annotation values loaded outside a ClassLoader.

Author:

"James X. Nelson (james@wetheinter.net)"

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element and Description
boolean	generateJavaxLangModelFactory
boolean	generateReflectionFactory
boolean	generateXapiBytecodeFactory

Element Detail

generateReflectionFactory

public abstract boolean generateReflectionFactory

Returns:

whether or not to generate methods that attempt to expose reflective instances of the actual annotation. The default is false, to avoid forcing annotation mirrors to include code that may be restricted by SecurityManager.

Default:

false

generateJavaxLangModelFactory

public abstract boolean generateJavaxLangModelFactory

Returns:

whether or not to generate factories for annotation processors. These factories are generated outside the annotation mirror, to avoid dependency on javax.lang.model.

Default:

true

generateXapiBytecodeFactory

public abstract boolean generateXapiBytecodeFactory

Returns:

whether or not to generate factories for xapi-dev-bytecode. These factories will be generated in client-accessible code, so the default value is false. This feature will be more useful when gwt can choke down bytecode.

Default:

false