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/**
 *  Copyright 2012-2017 Gunnar Morling (http://www.gunnarmorling.de/)
 *  and/or other contributors as indicated by the @authors tag. See the
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package org.mapstruct;

/**
 * Strategy for inheriting configurations given for methods of prototype mapping methods (declared on mapper config
 * classes) to actual mapping methods declared on mappers referring to such config class via {@link Mapper#config()}.
 *
 * @author Andreas Gudian
 */
public enum MappingInheritanceStrategy {
    /**
     * Apply the method-level configuration annotations only if the prototype method is explicitly referenced using
     * {@link InheritConfiguration}.
     */
    EXPLICIT,

    /**
     * Inherit the method-level configuration annotations automatically if source and target types of the prototype
     * method are assignable from the types of a given mapping method.
     */
    AUTO_INHERIT_FROM_CONFIG;
}