1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2014 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.data.provider.annotation;
17
18 import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
19 import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
20 import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
21 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
22 import java.lang.annotation.Target;
23
24 import org.kuali.rice.krad.data.metadata.MetadataMergeAction;
25 import org.kuali.rice.krad.data.provider.annotation.impl.AnnotationMetadataProviderImpl;
26
27 /**
28 * Indicates that, for other annotation metadata on the current class, field, how they should be handled.
29 *
30 * <p>In the {@link AnnotationMetadataProviderImpl} implemention, only MERGE and REMOVE are supported.</p>
31 *
32 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
33 */
34 @Target({ ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.METHOD })
35 @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
36 @Documented
37 public @interface MergeAction {
38
39 /**
40 * Gets the indicator on how metadata merging should occur.
41 *
42 * @return the indicator on how metadata merging should occur.
43 */
44 MetadataMergeAction value();
45 }