001/* 002 * Copyright 2009-2014 UnboundID Corp. 003 * All Rights Reserved. 004 */ 005/* 006 * Copyright (C) 2009-2014 UnboundID Corp. 007 * 008 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 009 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2 only) 010 * or the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv2.1 only) 011 * as published by the Free Software Foundation. 012 * 013 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 014 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 015 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 016 * GNU General Public License for more details. 017 * 018 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 019 * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses>. 020 */ 021package com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.persist; 022 023 024 025import java.lang.annotation.ElementType; 026import java.lang.annotation.Documented; 027import java.lang.annotation.Retention; 028import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy; 029import java.lang.annotation.Target; 030 031 032 033/** 034 * This annotation type may be used to mark methods which may be used to set 035 * values in the associated object using attributes read from an LDAP directory 036 * server. It should only be used for methods in classes that contain the 037 * {@link LDAPObject} annotation type. Those methods must not be static and 038 * must take a single argument, which is the value to set from the corresponding 039 * LDAP attribute, but they may have any access modifier (including 040 * {@code public}, {@code protected}, {@code private}, or no access modifier at 041 * all indicating package-level access). The associated attribute must not be 042 * referenced by any other {@link LDAPField} or {@code LDAPSetter} annotations 043 * in the same class, and it may be referenced by at most one {@link LDAPGetter} 044 * annotation. 045 */ 046@Documented() 047@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) 048@Target(value={ElementType.METHOD}) 049public @interface LDAPSetter 050{ 051 /** 052 * Indicates whether attempts to initialize an object should fail if the LDAP 053 * attribute has a value that cannot be represented in the required argument 054 * type for the associated method. If this is {@code true}, then an exception 055 * will be thrown in such instances. If this is {@code false}, then the 056 * associated method will not be invoked, and attempts to modify the 057 * corresponding entry in the directory may cause the existing values to be 058 * lost. 059 */ 060 boolean failOnInvalidValue() default true; 061 062 063 064 /** 065 * Indicates whether attempts to initialize an object should fail if the 066 * LDAP attribute has multiple values but the argument for the associated 067 * method only accepts a single value. If this is {@code true}, then an 068 * exception will be thrown in such instances. If this is {@code false}, then 069 * only the first value returned will be used, and attempts to modify the 070 * corresponding entry in the directory may cause those additional values to 071 * be lost. 072 */ 073 boolean failOnTooManyValues() default true; 074 075 076 077 /** 078 * The class that provides the logic for encoding the value of this method to 079 * an LDAP attribute. 080 */ 081 Class<? extends ObjectEncoder> encoderClass() 082 default DefaultObjectEncoder.class; 083 084 085 086 /** 087 * The name of the attribute type in which the value of the associated method 088 * will be stored. If this is not provided, then the method name must start 089 * with "set" and it will be assumed that the attribute name is the remainder 090 * of the method name. 091 */ 092 String attribute() default ""; 093}