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package javax.lang.model.element;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.lang.model.type.DeclaredType;
/**
* Represents an annotation. An annotation associates a value with
* each element of an annotation type.
*
* <p> Annotations should be compared using the {@code equals}
* method. There is no guarantee that any particular annotation will
* always be represented by the same object.
*
* @author Joseph D. Darcy
* @author Scott Seligman
* @author Peter von der Ahé
* @since 1.6
*/
public interface AnnotationMirror {
/**
* Returns the type of this annotation.
*
* @return the type of this annotation
*/
DeclaredType getAnnotationType();
/**
* Returns the values of this annotation's elements.
* This is returned in the form of a map that associates elements
* with their corresponding values.
* Only those elements with values explicitly present in the
* annotation are included, not those that are implicitly assuming
* their default values.
* The order of the map matches the order in which the
* values appear in the annotation's source.
*
* <p>Note that an annotation mirror of a marker annotation type
* will by definition have an empty map.
*
* <p>To fill in default values, use {@link
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