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Inheritance.java
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Inheritance.java
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/*
* Copyright (c) 2024 Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation
*
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
* terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
*
* This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
* Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse
* Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License, version 2
* with the GNU Classpath Exception which is available at
* https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
*/
package jakarta.nosql;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
/**
* Specifies the inheritance mapping strategy for the entity class hierarchy, which descends from the annotated entity class.
* Specifies the inheritance strategy to be used for an entity class hierarchy.
* It is specified on the entity class that is the root of the entity class hierarchy.
* This class can be either a regular or an abstract;
* The NoSQL database structure will have a column for every attribute
* of every class in the hierarchy.
* The subclass will use the {@link Entity} name from that class with this annotation.
*
* <pre>
*
* Example:
* @Entity
* @Inheritance
* public class Notification { ... }
*
* @Entity
* public class SMSNotification extends Notification { ... }
* </pre>
* @since 1.0.0
*/
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
public @interface Inheritance {
}