src/main/java/org/apache/felix/scrplugin/annotations/AnnotationProcessor.java

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package org.apache.felix.scrplugin.annotations;

import org.apache.felix.scrplugin.SCRDescriptorException;
import org.apache.felix.scrplugin.SCRDescriptorFailureException;
import org.apache.felix.scrplugin.description.ClassDescription;

/**
 * This service provides a plugin for annotation processing. Custom tags
 * can be processed.
 * On a scanned class all available annotation processors are called in
 * order of their {@link #getRanking()} value (lowest value first).
 */
public interface AnnotationProcessor {

    /**
     * Processes annotations from the provided scanned class and adds
     * descriptions to the object model based on the read annotations.
     *
     * If this service processes an annotation, it should remove this
     * annotation from the provided list to avoid duplicate processing
     * by other processors (with higher ranking)
     *
     * @param scannedClass The scanned class.
     * @param describedClass The description container.
     */
    void process(final ScannedClass scannedClass,
            final ClassDescription describedClass)
    throws SCRDescriptorException, SCRDescriptorFailureException;

    /**
     * A user friendly name
     */
    String getName();

    /**
     * The ranking of this processor.
     */
    int getRanking();
}