Package com.google.crypto.tink

Interface Annotations

All Known Implementing Classes:

MonitoringAnnotations

public interface Annotations

Represents annotations which can be attached to a KeysetHandle and later retrieved.

Annotations can be set in a KeysetHandle at the time of creation, and can later be obtained with KeysetHandle.getAnnotationsOrNull(java.lang.Class<T>). This is useful when one wants to add external information to the keyset handle (e.g. for monitoring) without changing the whole call stack.

We note that annotations are not copied when a keyset is copied (e.g., by creating a KeysetHandle.Builder).