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package com.google.gson;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
/**
* A mechanism for providing custom field naming in Gson. This allows the client code to translate
* field names into a particular convention that is not supported as a normal Java field
* declaration rules. For example, Java does not support "-" characters in a field name.
*
* @author Inderjeet Singh
* @author Joel Leitch
* @since 1.3
*/
public interface FieldNamingStrategy {
/**
* Translates the field name into its JSON field name representation.
*
* @param f the field object that we are translating
* @return the translated field name.
* @since 1.3
*/
public String translateName(Field f);
}