/**
 * ASM: a very small and fast Java bytecode manipulation framework Copyright (c) 2000-2011 INRIA,
 * France Telecom All rights reserved.
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package org.objectweb.asm.util;

import java.util.Map;
import org.objectweb.asm.Label;

/**
 * An {@link org.objectweb.asm.Attribute} that can generate the ASM code to create an equivalent
 * attribute.
 *
 * @author Eugene Kuleshov
 */
// DontCheck(AbbreviationAsWordInName): can't be renamed (for backward binary compatibility).
public interface ASMifiable {

  /**
   * Generates the ASM code to create an attribute equal to this attribute.
   *
   * @param outputBuffer where the generated code must be appended.
   * @param visitorVariableName the name of the visitor variable in the produced code.
   * @param labelNames the names of the labels in the generated code.
   */
  void asmify(StringBuffer outputBuffer, String visitorVariableName, Map<Label, String> labelNames);
}
