Package checkers.quals

package checkers.quals

Contains the basic annotations to be used by all type systems and meta-annotations to qualify annotations (qualifiers). They may serve as documentation for the type qualifiers, and aid the Checker Framework to infer the relations between the type qualifiers. checker.framework.manual #writing-a-checker Writing a checker

Class	Description
DefaultLocation	Specifies the locations to which a DefaultQualifier annotation applies.
DefaultQualifier	Applied to a declaration of a package, type, method, variable, etc., specifies that the given annotation should be the default.
DefaultQualifierInHierarchy	Indicates that the annotated qualifier is the default qualifier in the qualifier hierarchy: it applies if the programmer writes no explicit qualifier.
DefaultQualifiers	Specifies the annotations to be included in a type without having to provide them explicitly.
Dependent	Refines the qualified type of the annotated field or variable based on the qualified type of the receiver.
SubtypeOf	A meta-annotation to specify all the qualifiers that the given qualifier is a subtype of.
TypeQualifier	A meta-annotation indicating that the annotated annotation is a type qualifier.
Unqualified	A special annotation intended solely for representing an unqualified type in the qualifier hierarchy, as an argument to SubtypeOf.value(), in the type qualifiers declarations.
Unused	Declares that the field may not be accessed if the receiver is of the specified qualifier type (or any supertype).