1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2016 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 org.kuali.rice.krad.data.provider.PersistenceProvider;
19
20 import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
21 import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
22 import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
23 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
24 import java.lang.annotation.Target;
25
26 /**
27 * Indicates that this attribute should be forced to upper case before being sent to the {@link PersistenceProvider}.
28 *
29 * <p>This is a *hint* only, visible to the system metadata. The KRAD Data module does not enforce it.</p>
30 *
31 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
32 */
33 @Target(ElementType.FIELD)
34 @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
35 @Documented
36 public @interface ForceUppercase {
37
38 }