org.hotswap.agent.annotation

Annotation Type OnClassFileEvent

@Target(value=METHOD)
 @Retention(value=RUNTIME)
 @Documented
public @interface OnClassFileEvent

OnResourceFileEvent for a change on resource file representing a java class.

Use with a non static method.

Method attribute types:

• ClassLoader - the application classloader
• String - classname - the name of the class in the internal form of fully qualified class and interface names. For example, "java/util/List".
• ClassPool - initialized javassist classpool
• CtClass - javassist CtClass created from target file
• URI - URI of the watched resource
• URL - URL of the watched resource

Author:

Jiri Bubnik

Required Element Summary

Required Elements

Modifier and Type	Required Element and Description
String	classNameRegexp Regexp of class name.

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element and Description
FileEvent[]	events Filter watch event types.
int	timeout Merge multiple same watch events up to this timeout into a single watch event (useful to merge multiple MODIFY events).

Element Detail

classNameRegexp

public abstract String classNameRegexp

Regexp of class name.

events

public abstract FileEvent[] events

Filter watch event types. Default is all events (CREATE, MODIFY, DELETE). Be careful about assumptions on events. Some IDEs create on file compilation sequence of multiple delete/create/modify events.

Default:

{org.hotswap.agent.annotation.FileEvent.CREATE, org.hotswap.agent.annotation.FileEvent.MODIFY, org.hotswap.agent.annotation.FileEvent.DELETE}

timeout

public abstract int timeout

Merge multiple same watch events up to this timeout into a single watch event (useful to merge multiple MODIFY events).

Default:

50