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 * Copyright (c) 2011, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 *
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 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0,
 * or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
 */

// Contributors:
//     Oracle - initial API and implementation
//     06/12/2017-2.7 Lukas Jungmann
//       - 518155: [jpa22] add support for repeatable annotations
package org.eclipse.persistence.annotations;

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

import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.FIELD;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;

import java.lang.annotation.Repeatable;

/**
 * Allow a database INDEX to be define when generating DDL.
 * The @Index can be defined on a Entity class, or on an attribute.
 * The column is defaulted when defined on a attribute.
 *
 * @author James Sutherland
 * @since EclipseLink 2.2
 */
@Target({METHOD, FIELD, TYPE})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Repeatable(Indexes.class)
public @interface Index {
    /** The name of the INDEX, defaults to {@literal INDEX_} */
    String name() default "";

    /** The schema of the INDEX */
    String schema() default "";

    /** The catalog of the INDEX */
    String catalog() default "";

    /** The table to define the index on, defaults to entities primary table. */
    String table() default "";

    boolean unique() default false;

    /**
     * Specify the set of columns to define the index on.
     * Not required when annotated on a field/method.
     */
    String[] columnNames() default {};
}