gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/FieldAttributes.java

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package com.google.gson;

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;

/**
 * A data object that stores attributes of a field.
 *
 * <p>This class is immutable; therefore, it can be safely shared across threads.
 *
 * @author Inderjeet Singh
 * @author Joel Leitch
 *
 * @since 1.4
 */
final class FieldAttributes {
  private final Field field;

  /**
   * Constructs a Field Attributes object
   * @param f
   */
  FieldAttributes(Field f) {
    Preconditions.checkNotNull(f);
    field = f;
  }

  /**
   * @return the name of the field
   */
  public String getName() {
    return field.getName();
  }

  /**
   * <p>For example, assume the following class definition:
   * <pre class="code">
   * public class Foo {
   *   private String bar;
   *   private List&lt;String&gt; red;
   * }
   *
   * Type listParmeterizedType = new TypeToken<List<String>>() {}.getType();
   * </pre>
   *
   * <p>This method would return {@code String.class} for the {@code bar} field and
   * {@code listParameterizedType} for the {@code red} field.
   *
   * @return the specific type declared for this field
   */
  public Type getDeclaredType() {
    return field.getGenericType();
  }

  /**
   * Returns the {@code Class<?>} object that was declared for this field.
   *
   * <p>For example, assume the following class definition:
   * <pre class="code">
   * public class Foo {
   *   private String bar;
   *   private List&lt;String&gt; red;
   * }
   * </pre>
   *
   * <p>This method would return {@code String.class} for the {@code bar} field and
   * {@code List.class} for the {@code red} field.
   *
   * @return the specific class object that was declared for the field
   */
  public Class<?> getDeclaredClass() {
    return field.getType();
  }

  /**
   * Return the {@link T} annotation object from this field if it exist; otherwise returns
   * {@code null}.
   *
   * @param annotation the class of the annotation that will be retrieved
   * @return the annotation instance if it is bound to the field; otherwise {@code null}
   */
  public <T extends Annotation> T getAnnotation(Class<T> annotation) {
    return field.getAnnotation(annotation);
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if the field is defined with the {@code modifier}.
   *
   * <p>This method is meant to be called as:
   * <pre class="code">
   * boolean hasPublicModifier = fieldAttribute.hasModifier(java.lang.reflect.Modifier.PUBLIC);
   * </pre>
   *
   * @see java.lang.reflect.Modifier
   */
  public boolean hasModifier(int modifier) {
    return (field.getModifiers() & modifier) != 0;
  }

  /**
   * This is exposed internally only for the removing synthetic fields from the JSON output.
   *
   * @return true if the field is synthetic; otherwise false
   */
  boolean isSynthetic() {
    return field.isSynthetic();
  }
}