Auto Common Utilities

Overview

The Auto project has a set of common utilities to help ease use of the annotation processing environment.

Utility classes of note

MoreTypes : Utilities and Equivalence wrappers for TypeMirror and related subtypes

MoreElements : Utilities for Element and related subtypes

SuperficialValidation : Very simple scanner to ensure an Element is valid and free from distortion from upstream compilation errors

Visibility : Utilities for working with Elements' visibility levels (public, protected, etc.)

BasicAnnotationProcessor/Step : Simple types that - implement a validating annotation processor - defer invalid elements until later - break processor actions into multiple steps (which may each handle different annotations)

Usage/Setup

Auto common utilities have a standard Maven setup which can also be used from Gradle, Ivy, Ant, or other systems which consume binary artifacts from the central Maven binary artifact repositories.

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.google.auto</groupId>
  <artifactId>auto-common</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <!-- or use a known release version -->
</dependency>