001/* Annotation.java - Base interface for all annotations 002 Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. 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Note that classes 042 * that implement this class manually are not classed as annotations, and 043 * that this interface does not define an annotation type in itself. 044 * 045 * @author Tom Tromey (tromey@redhat.com) 046 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) 047 * @since 1.5 048 */ 049public interface Annotation 050{ 051 052 /** 053 * Returns the type of this annotation. 054 * 055 * @return the class of which this annotation is an instance. 056 */ 057 Class<? extends Annotation> annotationType(); 058 059 /** 060 * <p> 061 * Returns true if the supplied object is equivalent to this annotation. 062 * For this property to hold, the following must be true of <code>o</code>: 063 * </p> 064 * <ul> 065 * <li>The object is also an instance of the same annotation type.</li> 066 * <li>The members of the supplied annotation are equal to those of this 067 * annotation, according to the following: 068 * <ul> 069 * <li>If the members are <code>float</code>s, then, for floats 070 * <code>x</code> and <code>y</code>, 071 * <code>Float.valueOf(x).equals(Float.valueOf(y)</code> must return 072 * true. This differs from the usual (<code>==</code>) comparison 073 * in that <code>NaN</code> is considered equal to itself and positive 074 * and negative zero are seen as different.</li> 075 * <li>Likewise, if the members are <code>double</code>s, then, for doubles 076 * <code>x</code> and <code>y</code>, 077 * <code>Double.valueOf(x).equals(Double.valueOf(y)</code> must return 078 * true. This differs from the usual (<code>==</code>) comparison 079 * in that <code>NaN</code> is considered equal to itself and positive 080 * and negative zero are seen as different.</li> 081 * <li>Strings, classes, enumerations and annotations are considered 082 * equal according to the <code>equals()</code> implementation for these 083 * types.</li> 084 * <li>Arrays are considered equal according to <code>Arrays.equals()</code> 085 * </li> 086 * <li>Any remaining types are considered equal using <code>==</code>.</li> 087 * </li> 088 * </ul> 089 * 090 * @param o the object to compare with this annotation. 091 * @return true if the supplied object is an annotation with equivalent 092 * members. 093 */ 094 boolean equals(Object o); 095 096 /** 097 * <p> 098 * Returns the hash code of the annotation. This is computed as the 099 * sum of the hash codes of the annotation's members. 100 * </p> 101 * <p> 102 * The hash code of a member of the annotation is the result of XORing 103 * the hash code of its value with the result of multiplying the hash code 104 * of its name by 127. Formally, if the value is <code>v</code> and the 105 * name is <code>n</code>, the hash code of the member is 106 * v.hashCode() XOR (127 * String.hashCode(n)). <code>v.hashCode()</code> 107 * is defined as follows: 108 * </p> 109 * <ul> 110 * <li>The hash code of a primitive value (i.e. <code>byte</code>, 111 * <code>char</code>, <code>double</code>, <code>float</code>, 112 * <code>int</code>, <code>long</code>, <code>short</code> and 113 * <code>boolean</code>) is the hash code obtained from its corresponding 114 * wrapper class using <code>valueOf(v).hashCode()</code>, where 115 * <code>v</code> is the primitive value.</li> 116 * <li>The hash code of an enumeration, string, class or other annotation 117 * is obtained using <code>v.hashCode()</code>.</li> 118 * <li>The hash code of an array is computed using 119 * <code>Arrays.hashCode(v)</code>.</li> 120 * </ul> 121 * 122 * @return the hash code of the annotation, computed as the sum of its 123 * member hashcodes. 124 */ 125 int hashCode(); 126 127 /** 128 * Returns a textual representation of the annotation. This is 129 * implementation-dependent, but is expected to include the classname 130 * and the names and values of each member. 131 * 132 * @return a textual representation of the annotation. 133 */ 134 String toString(); 135}