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package com.google.code.facebookapi;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
/**
* Used in the IFacebookRestClient interface to tie together the method call (e.g. friends_get) and its return type.
*
* Facebook provides a human readable description of the API and an XSD schema of the response formats. Without a WADL descriptor for the service, these two concepts
* aren't tied together. So, the Java API needs to tie the requests and expected response types together using this annotation.
*
* The information specified helps to produce annotation-generated files FacebookXXXRestClient.java for Xml, Json and Jaxb. This annotation allows all the return types to
* be specified in IFacebookRestClient rather than scattered across the concrete adapter .java files.
*/
@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
public @interface FacebookReturnType {
Class JSON() default Object.class;
Class JAXB() default Object.class;
Class JAXBList() default Object.class;
}