/Users/lyon/j4p/src/javassist/Translator.java

1    /* 
2     * Javassist, a Java-bytecode translator toolkit. 
3     * Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Shigeru Chiba. All Rights Reserved. 
4     * 
5     * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 
6     * 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 
7     * the License.  Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under 
8     * the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later. 
9     * 
10    * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, 
11    * WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License 
12    * for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the 
13    * License. 
14    */ 
15    
16   package javassist; 
17    
18   /** 
19    * An observer of <code>ClassPool</code>. 
20    * The users can define a class implementing this 
21    * interface and attach an instance of that class to a 
22    * <code>ClassPool</code> object so that it can translate a class file 
23    * when the class file is loaded into the JVM, for example. 
24    * 
25    * @see ClassPool#ClassPool(ClassPool,Translator) 
26    * @see ClassPool#getDefault(Translator) 
27    */ 
28   public interface Translator { 
29       /** 
30        * Is invoked by a <code>ClassPool</code> for initialization 
31        * when the object is attached to a <code>ClassPool</code> object. 
32        * 
33        * @param pool      the <code>ClassPool</code> that this translator 
34        *                          is attached to. 
35        * 
36        * @see ClassPool#ClassPool(ClassPool,Translator) 
37        * @see ClassPool#getDefault(Translator) 
38        */ 
39       void start(ClassPool pool) 
40               throws NotFoundException, CannotCompileException; 
41    
42       /** 
43        * Is invoked by a <code>ClassPool</code> for notifying that 
44        * a class is written out to an output stream. 
45        * 
46        * <p>If CtClass.frozen() is true, that is, if the class has been 
47        * already modified and written, then onWrite() is not invoked. 
48        * 
49        * @param pool      the <code>ClassPool</code> that this translator 
50        *                          is attached to. 
51        * @param classname         a fully-qualified class name 
52        * 
53        * @see ClassPool#writeFile(String) 
54        * @see ClassPool#writeFile(String, String) 
55        * @see ClassPool#write(String) 
56        * @see ClassPool#write(String,DataOutputStream) 
57        */ 
58       void onWrite(ClassPool pool, String classname) 
59               throws NotFoundException, CannotCompileException; 
60   } 
61