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*** THIS VERSION UPLOADED FOR USE WITH CEDAR-COMMON, TO AVOID DEPENDENCIES ON GOOGLE CODE-BASED MAVEN REPOSITORIES. *** The simplest convenient interface to the Google App Engine datastore

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package com.googlecode.objectify.annotation;

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

/**
 * When placed on an entity field, the field will be written as a single Blob
 * property using java serialization.
 * 
 * 
 * The field can contain an arbitrary object graph.
 * All classes in the graph must follow Java serialization rules (ie, implement Serializable).
 * You will not be able to use the field or any child fields in queries.
 * Within serialized classes, {@code transient} (the java keyword, not the annotation) fields will not be stored.
 * {@code @Transient} fields *will* be stored!
 * {@code @Serialized} collections can be nested inside {@code @Embedded} collections.
 * Java serialization is opaque to the datastore viewer and other languages (ie gae/python).
 * 
 * 
 * You are strongly advised to place {@code serialVersionUID} on all classes
 * that you intend to store as {@code @Serialized}.  Without this, any change to your
 * classes will prevent stored objects from being deserialized on fetch.
 * 
 * @author Jeff Schnitzer 
 */
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target({ElementType.FIELD})
public @interface Serialized
{
}