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EE4J Compatible Implementation for Jakarta Faces API
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 *
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 *
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 */

package jakarta.faces.validator;

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

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

import jakarta.inject.Qualifier;

/**
 * 
 * The presence of this annotation on a class automatically registers the
 * class with the runtime as a {@link Validator}. The value of the {@link #value} attribute is taken to be the
 * validator-id and the fully qualified class name of the class to which this annotation is attached is taken
 * to be the validator-class. 
 * 
 * The implementation must guarantee that for each class annotated with  * FacesValidator, found with the 
 * algorithm in section 11.5 of the spec prose document,
 * {@link jakarta.faces.application.Application#addValidator(java.lang.String,java.lang.String)} is called, passing the
 * derived validator-id as the first argument and the derived validator-class as the second argument.
 * The implementation must guarantee that all such calls to addValidator() happen during application
 * startup time and before any requests are serviced.
 * 
 */
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target(TYPE)
@Inherited
@Qualifier
public @interface FacesValidator {

    /**
     * 
     * The value of this annotation attribute is taken to be the
     * validator-id with which instances of this class of component can be instantiated by calling
     * {@link jakarta.faces.application.Application#createValidator(java.lang.String)}. If
     * no value is specified, or the value is null, the value is taken to be the return of calling
     * getSimpleName on the class to which this annotation is attached and lowercasing the first character. If
     * more than one validator with this derived name is found, the results are undefined.
     * 
     *
     * @return the validator-id
     */

    String value() default "";

    /**
     * 
     * If true, the validator id for this annotation is added to the list of default validators by a call to
     * {@link jakarta.faces.application.Application#addDefaultValidatorId}.
     * 
     *
     * @return whether or not this is a default validator
     */

    boolean isDefault() default false;

    /**
     * 
     * The value of this annotation attribute is taken to be an indicator that flags whether or not the given converter is a
     * CDI managed converter.
     * 
     *
     * @return true if CDI managed, false otherwise.
     */

    boolean managed() default false;
}