Jackson is "the Java JSON library" or "the best JSON parser for Java". Or simply as "JSON for Java".

Jackson Annotations Source Code files are provided in the source packge (jackson-annotations-2.12.4-sources.jar). You can download it at Jackson Maven Website.

You can also browse Jackson Annotations Source Code below:

⏎ com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/util/LookupCache.java

package com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util;

/**
 * An interface describing the required API for the Jackson-databind Type cache.
 *<p>
 * Note that while interface itself does not specify synchronization requirements for
 * implementations, specific use cases do. Typically implementations are
 * expected to be thread-safe, that is, to handle synchronization.
 *
 * @since 2.12 (for forwards-compatiblity with 3.0)
 */
public interface LookupCache <K,V>
{
    /**
     * @return Number of entries currently in cache: may be approximate, only
     *    to be used for diagnostics, metrics reporting
     */
    int size();

    /**
     * NOTE: key is of type Object only to retain binary backwards-compatibility
     *
     * @param key
     * @return value associated with key (can return null)
     */
    V get(Object key);

    V put(K key, V value);

    V putIfAbsent(K key, V value);

    /**
     * Method for removing all contents this cache has.
     */
    void clear();
}

⏎ com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/util/LookupCache.java

 

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