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All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Comparable<RetentionPolicy>

public enum RetentionPolicy
extends Enum<RetentionPolicy>

Since:

1.5

• Enum Constant Summary

  Enum Constants

  Enum Constant and Description
  CLASS Annotation is available in the source code and in the class file, but not at runtime.
  RUNTIME Annotation is available in the source code, the class file and is available at runtime.
  SOURCE Annotation is only available in the source code.

• Method Summary

  Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method and Description
  static RetentionPolicy	valueOf(String name) Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name.
  static RetentionPolicy[]	values() Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared.

  • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Enum

    clone, compareTo, equals, finalize, getDeclaringClass, getSharedConstants, hashCode, name, ordinal, toString, valueOf

  • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

    getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

• Enum Constant Detail

  • SOURCE

    public static final RetentionPolicy SOURCE

    Annotation is only available in the source code.

  • CLASS

    public static final RetentionPolicy CLASS

    Annotation is available in the source code and in the class file, but not at runtime. This is the default policy.

  • RUNTIME

    public static final RetentionPolicy RUNTIME

    Annotation is available in the source code, the class file and is available at runtime.

• Method Detail

  • values

    public static RetentionPolicy[] values()

    Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:

    for (RetentionPolicy c : RetentionPolicy.values())
        System.out.println(c);
    

    Returns:

    an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared

  • valueOf

    public static RetentionPolicy valueOf(String name)

    Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

    Parameters:

    name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.

    Returns:

    the enum constant with the specified name

    Throws:

    IllegalArgumentException - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name

    NullPointerException - if the argument is null