Interface BeanElementVisitor<A extends Annotation>

Type Parameters:

A - An annotation type to limit visitation to a subset of beans

All Superinterfaces:

Ordered, Toggleable

public interface BeanElementVisitor<A extends Annotation>
extends Ordered, Toggleable

Allows visiting a bean to perform any validation prior to when bean definitions are written out.

Since:

3.0.0

Author:

graemerocher

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final List<BeanElementVisitor<?>>	VISITORS	The available visitors.

Fields inherited from interface Ordered

HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE, LOWEST_PRECEDENCE

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
default void	finish(VisitorContext visitorContext)	Called once when visitor processing finishes.
default void	start(VisitorContext visitorContext)	Called once when visitor processing starts.
default boolean	supports(BeanElement beanElement)	Returns whether this visitor supports visiting the specified element.
@Nullable BeanElement	visitBeanElement(BeanElement beanElement, VisitorContext visitorContext)	Visits a BeanElement before it is finalized and written to disk, allowing mutation of any annotation metadata before writing the bean definition.

Methods inherited from interface Ordered

getOrder

Methods inherited from interface Toggleable

isEnabled

Field Details

VISITORS

static final List<BeanElementVisitor<?>> VISITORS

The available visitors.

Method Details

visitBeanElement

@Nullable BeanElement visitBeanElement(BeanElement beanElement,
 VisitorContext visitorContext)

Visits a BeanElement before it is finalized and written to disk, allowing mutation of any annotation metadata before writing the bean definition.

Parameters:

beanElement - The bean element

visitorContext - The visitor context

Returns:

The bean element or null if the bean should not be written

start

default void start(VisitorContext visitorContext)

Called once when visitor processing starts.

Parameters:

visitorContext - The visitor context

finish

default void finish(VisitorContext visitorContext)

Called once when visitor processing finishes.

Parameters:

visitorContext - The visitor context

supports

default boolean supports(BeanElement beanElement)

Returns whether this visitor supports visiting the specified element.

Parameters:

beanElement - The bean element

Returns:

True if it does