http://www.aspectj.org: The AspectJ weaver introduces advices to java classes
  • Andy Clement 
Copyright (c) 2009 Contributors.
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Contributors:
initial implementation              Andy Clement 

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 * Copyright (c) 2009 Contributors.
 * All rights reserved.
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available
 * under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution and is available at
 * http://eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 * initial implementation              Andy Clement 
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.aspectj.lang.annotation;

import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;


DeclareMixin annotation - see design and usage in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=266552


Attached to a factory method, this annotation indicates that any types matching the pattern specified in the annotation value
will have new methods mixed in. The methods will be selected based on a combination of the return type of the factory method,
possibly sub-setted by any list of interfaces specified in the interfaces annotation value.

/**
 * DeclareMixin annotation - see design and usage in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=266552
 * <p>
 * Attached to a factory method, this annotation indicates that any types matching the pattern specified in the annotation value
 * will have new methods mixed in. The methods will be selected based on a combination of the return type of the factory method,
 * possibly sub-setted by any list of interfaces specified in the interfaces annotation value.
 */
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
public @interface DeclareMixin {

	
Returns:the target types expression
/**
	 * @return the target types expression
	 */
	String value();

	
Returns:array of interfaces that are to be mixed in. This is optional and if not specified the return type of the annotated method
will be used to determine the interface to mix in.
/**
	 * @return array of interfaces that are to be mixed in. This is optional and if not specified the return type of the annotated method
	 * will be used to determine the interface to mix in.
	 */
	Class[] interfaces() default { Object.class };

}