General BeanInfo annotation visitor helper?

[starksm64]

For the AbstractManagedObjectFactory refactoring, and deployment template factory I'm working on, there is the common task of finding annotations from a root BeanInfo. Do we have general BeanInfo visitor helper? Worth creating it?

[adrian.brock]

For the AbstractManagedObjectFactory refactoring, and deployment template factory I'm working on, there is the common task of finding annotations from a root BeanInfo. Do we have general BeanInfo visitor helper? Worth creating it?

I don't understand what you are tring to do?

You can't in general visit BeanInfo because it is not a graph, the types
can be self referencing either directly or transitively. Any "visit' would loop forever. ;-)

e.g. simple example from the JDK

public class Class extends Object {}
public class Object
{
 Class getClass();
}

The closest thing to a "visitor" (its not actually a visitor)
is the WeakTypeCache used to build the ClassInfo, etc.

[starksm64]

Its a graph with cycles, still has a simple graph style visitor pattern for a spanning tree. What I'm looking for is something like:

interface BeanInfoVisitor
{
 /** return true if the bean should be visited */
 boolean visit(BeanInfo bean);
 void visit(BeanInfo bean, ClassInfo info);
 void visit(BeanInfo bean, PropertyInfo info);
 void visit(BeanInfo bean, MethodInfo info);
}

[adrian.brock]

Nothing like that exists. There is somethiing similar in Ales's annotation adapter
but it serves a different purpose.