org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.metadata
Class ReflectionMetaDataMaker

java.lang.Object
  org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.metadata.MetaDataMaker
      org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.metadata.ReflectionMetaDataMaker

public class ReflectionMetaDataMaker

extends MetaDataMaker

Convenience methods to construct MetaData instances out of Java's reflection package's classes.

Author:

Jonas Bonér, Tibor Varga

Constructor Summary

ReflectionMetaDataMaker()

Method Summary

static ClassMetaData	createClassMetaData(java.lang.Class klass) Construct class meta-data from a Class object.
static FieldMetaData	createFieldMetaData(java.lang.reflect.Field field) Construct field meta-data from a Field object.
static FieldMetaData	createFieldMetaData(java.lang.String fieldName, java.lang.String typeName) Construct field meta-data from its basic details.
static InterfaceMetaData	createInterfaceMetaData(java.lang.Class anInterface) Construct interface meta-data from a Class object.
static MethodMetaData	createMethodMetaData(java.lang.reflect.Constructor method) Construct method meta-data from a Java <init> object.
static MethodMetaData	createMethodMetaData(java.lang.reflect.Method method) Construct method meta-data from a Java Method object.
static MethodMetaData	createMethodMetaData(java.lang.String methodName, java.lang.Class[] parameterTypes, java.lang.Class returnType) Construct method meta-data from its basic details.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ReflectionMetaDataMaker

public ReflectionMetaDataMaker()

Method Detail

createClassMetaData

public static ClassMetaData createClassMetaData(java.lang.Class klass)

Construct class meta-data from a Class object.

Parameters:

klass - is the class.

Returns:

a ClassMetaData instance.

createInterfaceMetaData

public static InterfaceMetaData createInterfaceMetaData(java.lang.Class anInterface)

Construct interface meta-data from a Class object.

Parameters:

anInterface - is the interface's Class to extract details from.

Returns:

a InterfaceMetaData instance.

createMethodMetaData

public static MethodMetaData createMethodMetaData(java.lang.String methodName,
                                                  java.lang.Class[] parameterTypes,
                                                  java.lang.Class returnType)

Construct method meta-data from its basic details.

Parameters:

methodName - is the name of the method.

parameterTypes - is the list of parameter types.

returnType - is the return type.

Returns:

a MethodMetaData instance.

createMethodMetaData

public static MethodMetaData createMethodMetaData(java.lang.reflect.Method method)

Construct method meta-data from a Java Method object.

Parameters:

method - is the Method object to extract details from.

Returns:

a MethodMetaData instance.

createMethodMetaData

public static MethodMetaData createMethodMetaData(java.lang.reflect.Constructor method)

Construct method meta-data from a Java <init> object.

Parameters:

method - is the Constructor object to extract details from.

Returns:

a MethodMetaData instance.

createFieldMetaData

public static FieldMetaData createFieldMetaData(java.lang.String fieldName,
                                                java.lang.String typeName)

Construct field meta-data from its basic details.

Parameters:

fieldName - is the name of the field.

typeName - is the type of the field.

Returns:

a FieldMetaData instance.

createFieldMetaData

public static FieldMetaData createFieldMetaData(java.lang.reflect.Field field)

Construct field meta-data from a Field object.

Parameters:

field - the field

Returns:

the field meta-data