public final Enum RetentionPolicy

Class Inheritance

java.lang.Object
java.lang.Enum
java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy

Annotation retention policy. The constants of this enumerated class describe the various policies for retaining annotations. They are used in conjunction with the Retention meta-annotation interface to specify how long annotations are to be retained.

Author: Joshua Bloch
Since: 1.5

Field Summary

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
public static final RetentionPolicy	CLASS Annotations are to be recorded in the class file by the compiler but need not be retained by the VM at run time.
public static final RetentionPolicy	RUNTIME Annotations are to be recorded in the class file by the compiler and retained by the VM at run time, so they may be read reflectively.
public static final RetentionPolicy	SOURCE Annotations are to be discarded by the compiler.

Constructor Summary

Access	Constructor and Description
private	RetentionPolicy()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
public static RetentionPolicy	valueOf(String name)
public static RetentionPolicy[]	values()

Inherited from java.lang.Enum:: clone compareTo describeConstable equals finalize getDeclaringClass hashCode name ordinal toString valueOf

Field Detail

CLASS	back to summary
public static final RetentionPolicy CLASS Annotations are to be recorded in the class file by the compiler but need not be retained by the VM at run time. This is the default behavior.

RUNTIME back to summary

RUNTIME	back to summary
public static final RetentionPolicy RUNTIME Annotations are to be recorded in the class file by the compiler and retained by the VM at run time, so they may be read reflectively. See Also `java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement`

public static final RetentionPolicy RUNTIME

Annotations are to be recorded in the class file by the compiler and retained by the VM at run time, so they may be read reflectively.

See Also: java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement

SOURCE	back to summary
public static final RetentionPolicy SOURCE Annotations are to be discarded by the compiler.

Constructor Detail

RetentionPolicy	back to summary
private RetentionPolicy()

Method Detail

valueOf	back to summary
public static RetentionPolicy valueOf(String name)

values	back to summary
public static RetentionPolicy[] values()