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package org.spongepowered.asm.mixin;

import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

import org.spongepowered.asm.util.ConstraintParser.Constraint;

/**
 * <p>Annotation used to indicate a mixin class member which must overwrite an
 * obfuscated method in the target class.</p>
 * 
 * <p>The default behaviour of mixin classes when merging mixin methods is to
 * replace methods in the target class which already exist, and simply add any
 * other methods to the target class body as new members. This default behaviour
 * allows methods in the target class to be easily overwritten by simply
 * creating a method in the mixin with a signature matching the member to be
 * overwritten.</p>
 * 
 * <p>This is not sufficient for obfuscated methods however, since as mixins
 * traverse the obfuscation boundary, this association with the target method is
 * lost because the method name will change. The {@link Overwrite} annotation is
 * used to indicate to the annotation processor that this method is intended to
 * overwrite a member in the target class, and should therefore be added to the
 * obfuscation table.</p>
 * 
 * <p>Adding this annotation to a non-obfuscated method will cause the
 * annotation processor to raise an error at compile time.</p>
 */
@Target({ ElementType.METHOD })
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface Overwrite {
    
    /**
     * Returns constraints which must be validated for this overwrite to
     * succeed. See {@link Constraint} for details of constraint formats.
     * 
     * @return Constraints for this annotation
     */
    public String constraints() default "";
    
    /**
     * Supplies possible aliases for this method. This should <b>only</b>
     * be used in the following scenarios:
     * 
     * <ul>
     *   <li>When shadowing a sythetic method which can have differen names at
     *   development time because it is regenerated by the compiler.
     *   </li>
     *   <li>When another mod or transformer is known to change the name of a
     *   field</li>
     * </ul>
     * 
     * @return Aliases for this member
     */
    public String[] aliases() default { }; 

}