package ca.uhn.fhir.rest.annotation;

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

import org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IBaseResource;

import ca.uhn.fhir.model.api.IResource;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.api.TagList;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.primitive.IdDt;

/**
 * RESTful method annotation to be used for the FHIR <a
 * href="http://hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/http.html#tags">Tag
 * Operations</a> which have to do with deleting tags.
 * <ul>
 * <li>
 * To delete tag(s) <b>to the given resource
 * instance</b>, this annotation should contain a {@link #type()} attribute
 * specifying the resource type, and the method should have a parameter of type
 * {@link IdDt} annotated with the {@link IdParam} annotation, as well as 
 * a parameter of type {@link TagList} which will contain the list of tags
 * to be deleted.
 * Note that for a
 * server implementation, the {@link #type()} annotation is optional if the
 * method is defined in a <a href=
 * "http://jamesagnew.github.io/hapi-fhir/doc_rest_server.html#resource_providers"
 * >resource provider</a>, since the type is implied.</li>
 * <li>
 * To delete tag(s) on the server <b>to the given version of the
 * resource instance</b>, this annotation should contain a {@link #type()}
 * attribute specifying the resource type, and the method should have a
 * parameter of type {@link IdDt} annotated with the {@link VersionIdParam}
 * annotation, <b>and</b> a parameter of type {@link IdDt} annotated with the
 * {@link IdParam} annotation, as well as 
 * a parameter of type {@link TagList} which will contain the list of tags
 * to be deleted.
 * Note that for a server implementation, the
 * {@link #type()} annotation is optional if the method is defined in a <a href=
 * "http://jamesagnew.github.io/hapi-fhir/doc_rest_server.html#resource_providers"
 * >resource provider</a>, since the type is implied.</li>
 * </ul>
 */
@Target(value= ElementType.METHOD)
@Retention(value=RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface DeleteTags {

	/**
	 * If set to a type other than the default (which is {@link IResource}
	 * , this method is expected to return a TagList containing only tags which
	 * are specific to the given resource type.
	 */
	Class<? extends IBaseResource> type() default IBaseResource.class;

}