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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2005, 2009 BEA Systems, Inc.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* tyeung@bea.com - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.env;
/**
* This represents the class file information about a member value pair of an annotation.
*/
public interface IBinaryElementValuePair {
/** @return the name of the member */
char[] getName();
/**
* Return {@link ClassSignature} for a Class {@link java.lang.Class}.
* Return {@link org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.impl.Constant} for compile-time constant of primitive type, as well as String literals.
* Return {@link EnumConstantSignature} if value is an enum constant.
* Return {@link IBinaryAnnotation} for annotation type.
* Return {@link Object}[] for array type.
*
* @return the value of this member value pair
*/
Object getValue();
}