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* Copyright (c) 2012-2016 Codenvy, S.A.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Codenvy, S.A. - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.everrest.core;
import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
/**
* Abstraction of method's, constructor's parameter or object field.
*
* @author andrew00x
*/
public interface Parameter {
/** @return addition annotation */
Annotation[] getAnnotations();
/**
* @return <i>main</i> annotation. It mind this annotation describe which value will be used for initialize parameter, e. g. {@link
* javax.ws.rs.PathParam}, {@link javax.ws.rs.QueryParam}, etc.
*/
Annotation getAnnotation();
/** @return true if parameter must not be decoded false otherwise */
boolean isEncoded();
/** @return default value for parameter */
String getDefaultValue();
/**
* @return generic parameter type
* @see java.lang.reflect.Method#getGenericParameterTypes()
*/
Type getGenericType();
/**
* @return parameter class.
* @see java.lang.reflect.Method#getParameterTypes()
*/
Class<?> getParameterClass();
}