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* Copyright 2011 Google Inc.
*
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package com.google.gwt.i18n.shared;
/**
* Create a custom localized date/time format at compile time. All methods on
* subtypes of this interface must take no parameters and return DateTimeFormat
* (which will be an initialized instance).
*/
public interface CustomDateTimeFormat {
/**
* Annotation containing the pattern skeleton.
*
* <p>The order of pattern characters and any literals don't matter, just
* which pattern characters are present and their counts.
*/
public @interface Pattern {
/**
* The pattern skeleton for which to generate a localized pattern. Note
* that the order of pattern characters don't matter, as the generated
* pattern will be derived from a localized pattern that conveys the same
* information.
*
* @return the pattern skeleton
*/
String value();
}
}