| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |
| * |
| * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the |
| * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0, |
| * or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php. |
| * |
| * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause |
| */ |
| |
| // Contributors: |
| // tware - March 25/2008 - 1.0M6 - Initial implementation |
| |
| package org.eclipse.persistence.annotations; |
| |
| import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE; |
| import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME; |
| |
| import java.lang.annotation.Retention; |
| import java.lang.annotation.Target; |
| |
| /** |
| * A CopyPolicy is used to set an |
| * org.eclipse.persistence.descriptors.copying.CopyPolicy on an Entity. |
| * It is required that a class that |
| * implements org.eclipse.persistence.descriptors.copying.CopyPolicy |
| * be specified as the argument. |
| * |
| * A CopyPolicy should be specified on an Entity, MappedSuperclass or |
| * Embeddable. |
| * |
| * For instance: |
| * {@literal @}Entity |
| * {@literal @}CopyPolicy("example.MyCopyPolicy") |
| * |
| * @see org.eclipse.persistence.descriptors.copying.CopyPolicy |
| * @see org.eclipse.persistence.annotations.CloneCopyPolicy |
| * @see org.eclipse.persistence.annotations.InstantiationCopyPolicy |
| * |
| * @author tware |
| */ |
| @Target({TYPE}) |
| @Retention(RUNTIME) |
| public @interface CopyPolicy { |
| |
| /** |
| * (Required) |
| * This defines the class of the copy policy. It must specify a class that |
| * implements org.eclipse.persistence.descriptors.copying.CopyPolicy |
| */ |
| Class<?> value(); |
| } |