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package ca.uhn.fhir.rest.annotation;

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

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

/**
 * RESTful method annotation to be used for the proposed FHIR
 * PATCH method
 *
 * 
 * Patch is used to apply a differential to a resource in either
 * XML or JSON format
 * 
 */
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target({ElementType.METHOD})
public @interface Patch {

	/**
	 * The return type for this search method. This generally does not need
	 * to be populated for a server implementation, since servers will return
	 * only one resource per class, but generally does need to be populated
	 * for client implementations.
	 */
	// NB: Read, Search (maybe others) share this annotation, so update the javadocs everywhere
	Class type() default IBaseResource.class;

	/**
	 * This method allows the return type for this method to be specified in a
	 * non-type-specific way, using the text name of the resource, e.g. "Patient".
	 *
	 * This attribute should be populate, or {@link #type()} should be, but not both.
	 *
	 * @since 5.4.0
	 */
	String typeName() default "";
}