What is the role of ClassOutline / JClass / CClass in CodeModel?

Question

My question concerns writing JAXB plugins, in particular JAXB codemodel.

What is the role of ClassOutline (and it\'s companions) and JClass

Answer 1

(This is to answer your further questions.)

Yes, it is possible to check customizations. Here is a class I am using to access customizations.

The trick is that reference properties don't have own customizations, customizations are placed in the referenced element properties.

public static CCustomizations getCustomizations(
        final CPropertyInfo propertyInfo) {

    final CCustomizations main = new CCustomizations(
            propertyInfo.getCustomizations());

    final Collection elementCustomizations = propertyInfo
            .accept(new CPropertyVisitor>() {
                public Collection onAttribute(
                        CAttributePropertyInfo info) {
                    return Collections.emptyList();
                }

                public Collection onElement(
                        CElementPropertyInfo arg0) {
                    return Collections.emptyList();
                }

                public Collection onReference(
                        CReferencePropertyInfo info) {

                    final List elementCustomizations = new ArrayList(
                            info.getElements().size());

                    for (CElement element : info.getElements()) {
                        if (!(element instanceof CElementInfo && ((CElementInfo) element)
                                .hasClass())) {
                            elementCustomizations.add(element
                                    .getCustomizations());
                        }
                    }

                    return elementCustomizations;
                }

                public Collection onValue(
                        CValuePropertyInfo arg0) {
                    return Collections.emptyList();
                };

            });

    CCustomizations customizations = main;

    for (CCustomizations e : elementCustomizations) {
        main.addAll(e);
    }

    return customizations;
}

I'd say users@jaxb.java.net is a good place for such discussions.