/**
* DataCleaner (community edition)
* Copyright (C) 2014 Neopost - Customer Information Management
*
* This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
* copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
* Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
* or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License
* for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this distribution; if not, write to:
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
* Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
package org.datacleaner.api;
import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Inherited;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
/**
* Annotation used to assign a set of categories to a component.
*/
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target({ ElementType.TYPE })
@Documented
@Inherited
public @interface Categorized {
/**
* Defines the top-level component category. This categorization is very
* broad and is normally inferred from the component type itself. Rather the
* {@link #value()} is a more typical categorization to define, since it
* defines the finer grained categorization of the components.
*
* @return
*/
Class<? extends ComponentSuperCategory> superCategory() default ComponentSuperCategory.class;
/**
* Defines the category of component within the top-level structure as
* defined by {@link #superCategory()}.
*
* @return
*/
Class<? extends ComponentCategory>[] value() default ComponentCategory.class;
}