Package org.drasyl.pipeline

Annotation Type Skip

@Documented
@Target(METHOD)
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface Skip

Indicates that the annotated handler method (Handler.read(HandlerContext, Address, Object, CompletableFuture), Handler.write(HandlerContext, Address, Object, CompletableFuture), Handler.eventTriggered(HandlerContext, Event, CompletableFuture) or Handler.exceptionCaught(HandlerContext, Exception)) in Handler will not be invoked by the Pipeline and so MUST only be used when the Handler method does nothing except forward to the next Handler in the pipeline.

Note that this annotation is not inherited. If a user overrides a method annotated with Skip, it will not be skipped anymore. Similarly, the user can override a method not annotated with Skip and simply pass the event through to the next handler, which reverses the behavior of the supertype. The skippable method MUST be implemented always because some environments prohibit the execution of reflections. In this case the method implementation is executed, also if it is annotated with Skip.