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 * Rich Faces - Natural Ajax for Java Server Faces (JSF)
 *
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 */
package org.richfaces.cdk.annotations;

import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

import javax.faces.convert.Converter;

/**
 * <p class="changed_added_4_0">
 * This annotation defines concrete class as JSF {@link Converter}, or abstract class as the base for generated Converter
 * implementation.
 * </p>
 *
 * @author asmirnov@exadel.com
 */
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE)
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
public @interface JsfConverter {
    /**
     * <p class="changed_added_4_0">
     * Default value for {@link #forClass} attribute.
     * </p>
     *
     * @author asmirnov@exadel.com
     *
     */
    public static final class NONE {
    }

    String NAME = "org.richfaces.cdk.annotations.JsfConverter";

    /**
     * <p class="changed_added_4_0">
     * The "converter-id" element represents the identifier under which the corresponding Converter class should be registered.
     * </p>
     *
     * @return converter-id
     */
    String id() default "";

    /**
     * <p class="changed_added_4_0">
     * represents the class for which a Converter class will be registered.
     * </p>
     *
     * @return
     */
    Class<?> forClass() default NONE.class;

    /**
     * <p class="changed_added_4_0">
     * fully qualified class name of the generated Converter implementation. Default value means nothing to genrate from
     * concrete class, or infer name by convention for abstract class.
     * </p>
     *
     * @return
     */
    String generate() default "";

    /**
     * <p class="changed_added_4_0">
     * Converter description to include into generated faces-config and taglib.
     * </p>
     *
     * @return
     */
    Description description() default @Description();

    /**
     * <p class="changed_added_4_0">
     * Tag description. If generated tags require special handlers, provide separate description for every type of tag, JSP and
     * Facelets. Otherwise, the only one tag tag description with name and type {@link TagType#All}.
     * </p>
     *
     * @return
     */
    Tag[] tag() default {};

    /**
     * <p class="changed_added_4_0">
     * Defines file names for fragment of faces-config.xml that contain standard attribute definitions. All names relative to
     * the META-INF/cdk/attributes/ folder in classpath. CDK also tries to read META-INF/cdk/attributes/[classname].xml file for
     * all component superclasses and interfaces. Therefore, it is not necessary to explicitly include definitions for Converter
     * and any other standard JSF classes.
     * </p>
     *
     * @return
     */
    String[] attributes() default {};

    /**
     * <p class="changed_added_4_0">
     * Interfaces that should be implemented in the generated class. CDK processes all {@link Attribute} annotations in these
     * interfaces
     * </p>
     *
     * @return
     */
    Class<?>[] interfaces() default {};
}