ca.uhn.fhir.rest.annotation.Delete Maven / Gradle / Ivy
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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 FHIR
* delete method.
*
*
* Delete is used to remove an existing resource, meaning that any attempts to
* do a non-version-specific read of that resource will fail.
*
*/
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(value = ElementType.METHOD)
public @interface Delete {
/**
* 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 "";
}