uk.co.strangeskies.reflection

Class Annotations.AnnotationParser

java.lang.Object

uk.co.strangeskies.reflection.Annotations.AnnotationParser

Enclosing class:

Annotations

public static class Annotations.AnnotationParser
extends java.lang.Object

A parser for Annotations, and various related types.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Parser<java.lang.annotation.Annotation>	getAnnotation() A parser for a Java language annotation.
Parser<java.util.List<java.lang.annotation.Annotation>>	getAnnotationList() A parser for a whitespace delimited list of Java language annotations.
Parser<AnnotationProperty>	getProperty() A parser for a property of an annotation, as a key, value pair.
Parser<java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object>>	getPropertyMap() A parser for the properties of an annotation.
Parser<java.lang.Object>	getPropertyValue() A parser for the value of a property of an annotation

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getPropertyMap

public Parser<java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object>> getPropertyMap()

A parser for the properties of an annotation.

Returns:

A mapping from property names to parsed values

getProperty

public Parser<AnnotationProperty> getProperty()

A parser for a property of an annotation, as a key, value pair.

Returns:

A pair representing the properties name and value

getPropertyValue

public Parser<java.lang.Object> getPropertyValue()

A parser for the value of a property of an annotation

Returns:

An object of a valid type for an annotation

getAnnotation

public Parser<java.lang.annotation.Annotation> getAnnotation()

A parser for a Java language annotation.

Returns:

An Annotation object parsed from a given string

getAnnotationList

public Parser<java.util.List<java.lang.annotation.Annotation>> getAnnotationList()

A parser for a whitespace delimited list of Java language annotations.

Returns:

A list of Annotation objects parsed from a given string