content: /*
   * MethodDetail.java July 2012
   *
   * Copyright (C) 2012, Niall Gallagher <niallg@users.sf.net>
   *
   * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   * You may obtain a copy of the License at
   *
   *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
   *
   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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   */
  
  package com.aliyun.odps.simpleframework.xml.core;
  
  import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
  import java.lang.reflect.Method;
  
  /**
   * The <code>MethodDetail</code> represents a method and acts as a 
   * means to cache all of the details associated with the method. 
   * This is primarily used to cache data associated with the method
   * as some platforms do not perform well with reflection.
   * 
   * @author Niall Gallagher
   */
  class MethodDetail {
     
     /**
      * This contains all the annotations declared on the method.
      */
     private final Annotation[] list;
     
     /**
      * This is the method that this instance is representing.
      */
     private final Method method;
     
     /**
      * This contains the name of the method that is represented.
      */
     private final String name;
     
     /**
      * Constructor for the <code>MethodDetail</code> object. This takes
      * a method that has been extracted from a class. All of the details
      * such as the annotations and the method name are stored.
      * 
      * @param method this is the method that is represented by this
      */
     public MethodDetail(Method method) {
        this.list = method.getDeclaredAnnotations();
        this.name = method.getName();
        this.method = method;
     }
     
     /**
      * This returns the list of annotations that are associated with 
      * the method. The annotations are extracted only once and cached
      * internally, which improves the performance of serialization as
      * reflection on the method needs to be performed only once.
      * 
      * @return this returns the annotations associated with the method
      */
     public Annotation[] getAnnotations() {
        return list;
     }
     
     /**
      * This is the method that is represented by this detail. The method
      * is provided so that it can be invoked to set or get the data
      * that is referenced by the method during serialization.
      * 
      * @return this returns the method represented by this detail
      */
     public Method getMethod() {
        return method;
     }
     
     /**
      * This is used to extract the name of the method. The name here
      * is the actual name of the method rather than the name used by
      * the XML representation of the method.
      * 
      * @return this returns the actual name of the method
      */
     public String getName() {
        return name;
     }
  }
  