javax.annotation.Generated Maven / Gradle / Ivy
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package javax.annotation;
import java.lang.annotation.*;
/**
* gRPC generated code uses the @Generated annotation which is no longer part of core JDK
* The JavaEE version is CDDL licensed, which would introduce a CDDL dependency
*
* This version of the @Generated annotation is copied from the Tomcat Jakarta implementation,
* which is an Apache-2.0 licensed implementation.
*
* https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/main/java/jakarta/annotation/Generated.java
*
* Discussion on gRPC issue is here:
* https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/issues/6833
*
* The @Generated annotation is also used by Google cloud platform libraries
*/
@Documented
@Target({ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE, ElementType.CONSTRUCTOR,
ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.LOCAL_VARIABLE, ElementType.METHOD,
ElementType.PACKAGE, ElementType.PARAMETER, ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE)
public @interface Generated {
/**
* @return The name of the code generator. It is recommended that the fully
* qualified name of the code generator is used.
*/
String[] value();
/**
* @return The date the code was generated
*/
String date() default "";
/**
* @return Additional comments (if any) related to the code generation
*/
String comments() default "";
}