Package checkers.quals

Contains the basic annotations to be used by all type systems and meta-annotations to qualify annotations (qualifiers).

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Enum Summary
Enum Description
DefaultLocation Specifies the locations to which a DefaultQualifier annotation applies.
 

Annotation Types Summary
Annotation Type Description
DefaultQualifier Applied to a declaration of a package, type, method, variable, etc., specifies that the given annotation should be the default.
DefaultQualifierInHierarchy Indicates that the annotated qualifier is the default qualifier in the qualifier hierarchy: it applies if the programmer writes no explicit qualifier.
DefaultQualifiers Specifies the annotations to be included in a type without having to provide them explicitly.
Dependent Refines the qualified type of the annotated field or variable based on the qualified type of the receiver.
ImplicitFor A meta-annotation that specifies the trees and types for which the framework should automatically add that qualifier.
PolymorphicQualifier A meta-annotation that indicates that an annotation is a polymorphic type qualifier.
SubtypeOf A meta-annotation to specify all the qualifiers that the given qualifier is a subtype of.
TypeQualifier A meta-annotation indicating that the annotated annotation is a type qualifier.
TypeQualifiers An annotation that lists the type qualifiers supported by the annotated Checker.
Unqualified A special annotation intended solely for representing an unqualified type in the qualifier hierarchy, as an argument to SubtypeOf.value(), in the type qualifiers declarations.
Unused Declares that the field may not be accessed if the receiver is of the specified qualifier type (or any supertype).
 

Package checkers.quals Description

Contains the basic annotations to be used by all type systems and meta-annotations to qualify annotations (qualifiers). They may serve as documentation for the type qualifiers, and aid the Checker Framework to infer the relations between the type qualifiers.

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