Package com.tngtech.jgiven.annotation

Interface TagDescriptionGenerator

public interface TagDescriptionGenerator

Is used as an attribute of the IsTag annotation to dynamically generate a description for an annotation depending on its value.

Implementations of this interface must be a public non-abstract class that is not a non-static inner class and must have a public default constructor.

Since:

0.6.3

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
java.lang.String	generateDescription(TagConfiguration tagConfiguration, java.lang.annotation.Annotation annotation, java.lang.Object value)	Implement this method to generate the description for the given annotation and its value.

Method Detail

generateDescription

java.lang.String generateDescription(TagConfiguration tagConfiguration,
                                     java.lang.annotation.Annotation annotation,
                                     java.lang.Object value)

Implement this method to generate the description for the given annotation and its value.

Note that when the value of the annotation is an array and IsTag.explodeArray() is true, then this method is called for each value of the array and not once for the whole array. Otherwise it is called only once.

Parameters:

tagConfiguration - the configuration of the tag. The values typically correspond to the annotation. However, it is also possible to configure annotations to be tags using JGivenConfiguration, in which case there is no IsTag annotation.

annotation - the actual annotation that was used as a tag. Note that this can be null in the case of dynamically added tags.

value - the value of the annotation. If the annotation has no value the default value is passed (IsTag.value()

Returns:

the description of the annotation for the given value