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1   /***************************************************************************************
2    * Copyright (c) Jonas BonŽr, Alexandre Vasseur. All rights reserved.                 *
3    * http://aspectwerkz.codehaus.org                                                    *
4    * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
5    * The software in this package is published under the terms of the LGPL license      *
6    * a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the license.txt file.  *
7    **************************************************************************************/
8   package org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.annotation.instrumentation.asm;
9   
10  import org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.annotation.instrumentation.AttributeEnhancer;
11  import org.objectweb.asm.Attribute;
12  import org.objectweb.asm.ByteVector;
13  import org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader;
14  import org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter;
15  import org.objectweb.asm.Label;
16  
17  /***
18   * Custom annotation wrapper annotation.
19   * This Java 1.5 style annotation is used to wrap user defined / 1.3 / 1.4 annotations instead of using a custom attribute.
20   * This allow to add user defined annotations as RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations and thus to support several annotations and
21   * annotations introduction.
22   * </br>
23   * See AW-234.
24   *
25   * @author <a href="mailto:jboner@codehaus.org">Jonas BonŽr </a>
26   * @author <a href="mailto:alex AT gnilux DOT com">Alexandre Vasseur</a>
27   */
28  public interface CustomAttribute {
29  
30      public final static String TYPE = "Lorg/codehaus/aspectwerkz/annotation/instrumentation/asm/CustomAttribute;";
31  
32      /***
33       * Default value is a String, containing the BASE64 encoding of the serialized data of the user
34       * custom annotation (proxy instance).
35       *
36       * @return
37       */
38      public String value();
39  
40  }