1 package org.codehaus.mojo.jaxb2.schemageneration.postprocessing.javadoc; 2 3 /* 4 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 5 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 6 * distributed with this work for additional information 7 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 8 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 9 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 10 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 11 * 12 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 13 * 14 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 15 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 16 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 17 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 18 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 19 * under the License. 20 */ 21 22 import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute; 23 import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement; 24 import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType; 25 26 /** 27 * Common specification for a JavaDoc location which can be compared and sorted. 28 * JavaDoc locations must be comparable and also convert-able to unique strings. 29 * 30 * @author <a href="mailto:lj@jguru.se">Lennart Jörelid</a>, jGuru Europe AB 31 * @since 2.0 32 */ 33 public interface SortableLocation extends Comparable<SortableLocation> { 34 35 /** 36 * Validates if the supplied path is equal to this SortableLocation. 37 * 38 * @param path The non-null path to compare to this SortableLocation. 39 * @return {@code true} if this SortableLocation is equal to the supplied path. 40 */ 41 boolean isEqualToPath(final String path); 42 43 /** 44 * Retrieves the path of this SortableLocation. The path must uniquely correspond to each unique SortableLocation, 45 * implying that SortableLocations could be sorted and compared for equality using the path property. 46 * 47 * @return the path of this SortableLocation. Never null. 48 */ 49 String getPath(); 50 51 /** 52 * Retrieves the value of the name attribute provided by a JAXB annotation, implying that 53 * the XSD type should use another name than the default. 54 * 55 * @return the value of the name attribute provided by a JAXB annotation relevant to this {@link SortableLocation}. 56 * @see XmlElement#name() 57 * @see XmlAttribute#name() 58 * @see XmlType#name() 59 */ 60 String getAnnotationRenamedTo(); 61 }