android/guava-testlib/src/com/google/common/collect/testing/features/TesterAnnotation.java

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2008 The Guava Authors
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
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package com.google.common.collect.testing.features;

import com.google.common.annotations.GwtCompatible;
import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

/**
 * Use this to meta-annotate {@code XxxFeature.Require} annotations, so that those annotations can
 * be used to decide whether to apply a test to a given class-under-test.
 *
 * <p>This is needed because annotations can't implement interfaces, which is also why reflection is
 * used to extract values from the properties of the various annotations.
 *
 * @author George van den Driessche
 */
@Target(value = {java.lang.annotation.ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE})
@Retention(value = RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
@GwtCompatible
public @interface TesterAnnotation {}