Package org.datanucleus.metadata.annotations

Interface AnnotationReader

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAnnotationReader

public interface AnnotationReader

Interface defining the access to MetaData derived from Annotations. An annotation reader supports particular annotations packages.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
AbstractClassMetaData	getMetaDataForClass(Class cls, PackageMetaData pmd, ClassLoaderResolver clr)	Method to get the MetaData for a class from its annotations.
String[]	getSupportedAnnotationPackages()	Accessor for the annotations packages supported by this reader.
boolean	isPersistenceContext()	Method to return whether this is reading in a persistence context.

Method Detail

getSupportedAnnotationPackages

String[] getSupportedAnnotationPackages()

Accessor for the annotations packages supported by this reader.

Returns:

The annotations packages that will be processed.

getMetaDataForClass

AbstractClassMetaData getMetaDataForClass(Class cls,
                                          PackageMetaData pmd,
                                          ClassLoaderResolver clr)

Method to get the MetaData for a class from its annotations.

Parameters:

cls - The class

pmd - MetaData for the owning package (that this will be a child of)

clr - ClassLoader resolver

Returns:

The ClassMetaData (unpopulated and uninitialised)

isPersistenceContext

boolean isPersistenceContext()

Method to return whether this is reading in a persistence context.

Returns:

Whether this is a persistence context