org.castor.cpa.jpa.processors.fieldprocessors

Class JPAJoinColumnProcessor

java.lang.Object

org.castor.cpa.jpa.processors.BaseJPAAnnotationProcessor

org.castor.cpa.jpa.processors.fieldprocessors.JPAJoinColumnProcessor

All Implemented Interfaces:

AnnotationProcessor, TargetAwareAnnotationProcessor

public class JPAJoinColumnProcessor
extends BaseJPAAnnotationProcessor

Processes the JPA annotation JoinColumn. After this processor is done, all joincolumn related methods of JPAFieldNature will return valid values.

Version:

02.02.2009

Author:

Peter Schmidt

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
JPAJoinColumnProcessor()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.Class<? extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation>	forAnnotationClass() Returns for which Annotation this processor is meant.
<I extends BaseNature,A extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation> boolean	processAnnotation(I info, A annotation, java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement target) The processing action of this processor.

Methods inherited from class org.castor.cpa.jpa.processors.BaseJPAAnnotationProcessor

processAnnotation

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

JPAJoinColumnProcessor

public JPAJoinColumnProcessor()

Method Detail

forAnnotationClass

public java.lang.Class<? extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation> forAnnotationClass()

Returns for which Annotation this processor is meant.

Returns:

the Class for which this processor is meant

See Also:

AnnotationProcessor.forAnnotationClass()

processAnnotation

public <I extends BaseNature,A extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation> boolean processAnnotation(I info,
                                                                                         A annotation,
                                                                                         java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement target)

The processing action of this processor. If an annotation is given which is not supported false is returned.

Parameters:

info - the Info class that should be filled with the information read

annotation - the annotation to process

target - the target (Field, Class, etc.) of the given annotation

Returns:

true, if the annotation was processed successfully, false if not

See Also:

processAnnotation(BaseNature, AnnotatedElement)