checkers.types
Class TypeFromElement

java.lang.Object
  checkers.types.TypeFromElement

public class TypeFromElement
extends Object

A utility class used to extract the annotations from an element and inserts them into the elements type.

Constructor Summary

TypeFromElement()

Method Summary

static void	annotate(AnnotatedTypeMirror.AnnotatedDeclaredType type, TypeElement element) Extracts type annotations from the element and inserts them into the type of the element.
static void	annotate(AnnotatedTypeMirror.AnnotatedExecutableType type, ExecutableElement element) Extracts type annotations from the element and inserts them into the type of the element.
static void	annotate(AnnotatedTypeMirror type, Element element) Extracts type annotations from the element and inserts them into the type of the element.
static void	annotate(AnnotatedTypeMirror type, VariableElement element) Extracts type annotations from the element and inserts them into the type of the element.
static void	annotateSupers(List<AnnotatedTypeMirror.AnnotatedDeclaredType> supertypes, TypeElement element)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

TypeFromElement

public TypeFromElement()

Method Detail

annotate

public static void annotate(AnnotatedTypeMirror type,
                            Element element)

Extracts type annotations from the element and inserts them into the type of the element. The element could be one of: 1. TypeElement of a class or an interface 2. ExecutableElement of a method or a constructor 3. VariableElement of a field or a method parameter 4. TypeParameterElement of a method or a class type parameter

annotate

public static void annotate(AnnotatedTypeMirror type,
                            VariableElement element)

Extracts type annotations from the element and inserts them into the type of the element. the element needs to be that of a field

Parameters:

type - the type of the field

element - the element of a field

annotate

public static void annotate(AnnotatedTypeMirror.AnnotatedDeclaredType type,
                            TypeElement element)

Extracts type annotations from the element and inserts them into the type of the element. the element needs to be that of a class or an interface

Parameters:

type - the type of the class/interface

element - the element of a class/interface

annotateSupers

public static void annotateSupers(List<AnnotatedTypeMirror.AnnotatedDeclaredType> supertypes,
                                  TypeElement element)

annotate

public static void annotate(AnnotatedTypeMirror.AnnotatedExecutableType type,
                            ExecutableElement element)

Extracts type annotations from the element and inserts them into the type of the element. the element needs to be that of a method or a constructor.

Parameters:

type - the type of the method

element - the element of a method