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// $Id:$
package org.hibernate.validator.constraints;

/**
 * The Enum {@code CompositionType} which is used as argument to the annotation {@code ConstraintComposition}.
 */
public enum CompositionType {
	/**
	 * Used to indicate the disjunction of all constraints it is applied to.
	 */
	OR,

	/**
	 * Used to indicate the conjunction of all the constraints it is applied to.
	 */
	AND,

	/**
	 * ALL_FALSE is a generalisation of the usual NOT operator, which is applied to
	 * a list of conditions rather than just one element.
	 * When the annotation it is used on is composed of a single constraint annotation, then it is equivalent to NOT.
	 */
	ALL_FALSE
}