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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2009 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package dex.structure;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * {@code DexAnnotation} represents an annotation.
+ */
+public interface DexAnnotation {
+
+ /**
+ * {@code Visibility} indicates the retention of a {@code DexAnnotation}.
+ */
+ enum Visibility {
+ /**
+ * Intended only to be visible at build time (e.g., during compilation
+ * of other code).
+ */
+ VISIBILITY_BUILD((byte) 0x00),
+ /**
+ * Intended to be visible at runtime. FIXME missing words in spec
+ */
+ VISIBILITY_RUNTIME((byte) 0X01),
+ /**
+ * Intended to be visible at runtime, but only to the underlying system
+ * (and not to regular user code). FIXME missing words in spec
+ */
+ VISIBILITY_SYSTEM((byte) 0x02);
+
+ @SuppressWarnings("unused")
+ private byte value;
+
+ private Visibility(byte value) {
+ this.value = value;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the {@code Visibility} identified by the given {@code byte}.
+ * pre: 0 <= {@code value} <=2
+ *
+ * @param value
+ * the {@code byte} value which identifies a {@code
+ * Visibility}
+ * @return the {@code Visibility} for the given {@code byte}
+ */
+ public static Visibility get(byte value) {
+ // FIXME loop and compare instead of switch?
+ switch (value) {
+ case 0x00:
+ return VISIBILITY_BUILD;
+ case 0x01:
+ return VISIBILITY_RUNTIME;
+ case 0x02:
+ return VISIBILITY_SYSTEM;
+ default:
+ throw new IllegalArgumentException("Visibility doesn't exist!");
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the {@code Visibility} of this {@code DexAnnotation}.
+ *
+ * @return the {@code Visibility} of this {@code DexAnnotation}
+ */
+ Visibility getVisibility();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the attributes of this {@code DexAnnotation}.
+ *
+ * @return the attributes of this {@code DexAnnotation}
+ */
+ List<DexAnnotationAttribute> getAttributes();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the class name of this {@code DexAnnotation}.
+ *
+ * @return the class name of this {@code DexAnnotation}
+ */
+ String getTypeName();
+}