/**
* Copyright 2012-2017 Gunnar Morling (http://www.gunnarmorling.de/)
* and/or other contributors as indicated by the @authors tag. See the
* copyright.txt file in the distribution for a full listing of all
* contributors.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package org.mapstruct;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
/**
* Declares an annotation type to be a qualifier. Qualifier annotations allow unambiguously identify a suitable mapping
* method in case several methods qualify to map a bean property, iterable element etc.
* <p>
* For more info see:
* <ul>
* <li>{@link Mapping#qualifiedBy() }</li>
* <li>{@link BeanMapping#qualifiedBy() }</li>
* <li>{@link IterableMapping#qualifiedBy() }</li>
* <li>{@link MapMapping#keyQualifiedBy() }</li>
* <li>{@link MapMapping#valueQualifiedBy() }</li>
* </ul>
* Example:
*
* <pre>
* @Qualifier
* @Target(ElementType.METHOD)
* @Retention(RetentionPolicy.CLASS)
* public @interface EnglishToGerman {
* }
* </pre>
*
* <b>NOTE:</b> Qualifiers should have {@link RetentionPolicy#CLASS}.
*
* @author Sjaak Derksen
* @see Named
*/
@Target(ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.CLASS)
public @interface Qualifier {
}