    001/*
    002 * Copyright (c) 2007-2016 Concurrent, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
    003 *
    004 * Project and contact information: http://www.cascading.org/
    005 *
    006 * This file is part of the Cascading project.
    007 *
    008 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    009 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
    010 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
    011 *
    012 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
    013 *
    014 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
    015 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
    016 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
    017 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
    018 * limitations under the License.
    019 */
    020
    021package cascading.management.annotation;
    022
    023import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
    024import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
    025import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
    026import java.lang.annotation.Target;
    027
    028/**
    029 * PropertyOrder is an annotation at the class level that controls the sort order of the Property annotations present
    030 * on that class.
    031 * </p>
    032 * Order.DECLARED is the default sort order in which the properties are returned in the order they are returned by the
    033 * reflection API of the JVM. This can be implementation specific and is not guaranteed to be stable.
    034 * <p/>
    035 * Using Order.ALPHABETICAL will cause the properties to be sorted alphabetically.
    036 * <p/>
    037 * Order.GIVEN and an array of Strings containing <em>all</em> properties of that class, will result in a custom order.
    038 */
    039@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
    040@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
    041public @interface PropertyOrder
    042  {
    043  Order order() default Order.DECLARED;
    044
    045  String[] properties() default {};
    046  }