javassist/src/main/javassist/tools/reflect/Metalevel.java

/*
 * Javassist, a Java-bytecode translator toolkit.
 * Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Shigeru Chiba. All Rights Reserved.
 *
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 * the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later.
 *
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package javassist.tools.reflect;

/**
 * An interface to access a metaobject and a class metaobject.
 * This interface is implicitly implemented by the reflective
 * class.
 */
public interface Metalevel {
    /**
     * Obtains the class metaobject associated with this object.
     */
    ClassMetaobject _getClass();

    /**
     * Obtains the metaobject associated with this object.
     */
    Metaobject _getMetaobject();

    /**
     * Changes the metaobject associated with this object.
     */
    void _setMetaobject(Metaobject m);
}