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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2014, WSO2 Inc. (http://www.wso2.org) All Rights Reserved.
+*
+* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+* You may obtain a copy of the License at
+*
+* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+*
+* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+* limitations under the License.
+*/
+package org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.webapp.publisher.lifecycle.util;
+
+import org.scannotation.AnnotationDB;
+import org.scannotation.archiveiterator.Filter;
+import org.scannotation.archiveiterator.IteratorFactory;
+import org.scannotation.archiveiterator.StreamIterator;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+public class ExtendedAnnotationDB extends AnnotationDB {
+
+    public ExtendedAnnotationDB() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    public void scanArchives(URL... urls) throws IOException {
+        URL[] arr$ = urls;
+        int len$ = urls.length;
+
+        for(int i$ = 0; i$ < len$; ++i$) {
+            URL url = arr$[i$];
+            Filter filter = new Filter() {
+                public boolean accepts(String filename) {
+                    if(filename.endsWith(".class")) {
+                        if(filename.startsWith("/") || filename.startsWith("\\")) {
+                            filename = filename.substring(1);
+                        }
+
+                        if(!ExtendedAnnotationDB.this.ignoreScan(filename.replace('/', '.'))) {
+                            return true;
+                        }
+                    }
+                    return false;
+                }
+            };
+            StreamIterator it = ExtendedIteratorFactory.create(url, filter);
+
+            InputStream stream;
+            while((stream = it.next()) != null) {
+                this.scanClass(stream);
+            }
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    private boolean ignoreScan(String intf) {
+        String[] arr$;
+        int len$;
+        int i$;
+        String ignored;
+        if(this.scanPackages != null) {
+            arr$ = this.scanPackages;
+            len$ = arr$.length;
+
+            for(i$ = 0; i$ < len$; ++i$) {
+                ignored = arr$[i$];
+                if(intf.startsWith(ignored + ".")) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+            }
+
+            return true;
+        } else {
+            arr$ = this.ignoredPackages;
+            len$ = arr$.length;
+
+            for(i$ = 0; i$ < len$; ++i$) {
+                ignored = arr$[i$];
+                if(intf.startsWith(ignored + ".")) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+            }
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+}