scrplugin-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/scrplugin/annotations/Property.java

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package org.apache.felix.scrplugin.annotations;

import java.lang.annotation.*;

/**
 * The <code>Property</code> annotation defines properties which are made
 * available to the component through the ComponentContext.getProperties()
 * method. These annotations are not strictly required but may be used by
 * components to defined initial configuration. Additionally properties may be
 * set here to identify the component if it is registered as a service, for
 * example the service.description and service.vendor properties.
 * <p>
 * This tag is used to declare &lt;property&gt; elements of the component
 * declaration. See section 112.4.5, Properties and Property Elements, in the
 * OSGi Service Platform Service Compendium Specification for more information.
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE)
@Documented
public @interface Property {

    /**
     * The name of the property
     */
    String name();

    /**
     * The label to display in a form to configure this property. This name may
     * be localized by prepending a % sign to the name. Default value:
     * %&lt;name&gt;.name
     */
    String label() default "";

    /**
     * A descriptive text to provide the client in a form to configure this
     * property. This name may be localized by prepending a % sign to the name.
     * Default value: %&lt;name&gt;.description
     */
    String description() default "";

    /**
     * The value(s) of the property. If the property type is not String, parsing
     * of the value is done using the valueOf(String) method of the class
     * defined by the property type.
     */
    String[] value();

    /**
     * The type of the property value. This must be one of {@link String},
     * {@link Long}, {@link Double}, {@link Float}, {@link Integer},
     * {@link Byte}, {@link Character}, {@link Boolean} and {@link Short}.
     */
    Class type() default AutoDetect.class;

    /**
     * Defines the cardinality of the property and its collection type. If the
     * cardinality is negative, the property is expected to be stored in a
     * {@link java.util.Vector} (primitive types such as boolean are boxed in
     * the Wrapper class), if the cardinality is positive, the property is
     * stored in an array (primitve types are unboxed, that is Boolean type
     * values are stored in boolean[]). The actual value defines the maximum
     * number of elements in the vector or array, where Integer.MIN_INT
     * describes an unbounded Vector and Integer.MAX_INT describes an unbounded
     * array. If the cardinality is zero, the property is a scalar value. If the
     * defined value of the property is set in the value attribute, the
     * cardinality defaults to 0 (zero for scalar value). If the property is
     * defined in one or more properties starting with values, the cardinality
     * defaults to Integer.MAX_INT, that is an unbounded array.
     */
    int cardinality() default 0;

    /**
     * Boolean flag defining whether a metatype descriptor entry should be
     * generated for this property or not. By default a metatype descriptor
     * entry, i.e. an AD element, is generated except for the properties
     * <code>service.pid</code>, <code>service.description</code>,
     * <code>service.id</code>, <code>service.ranking</code>,
     * <code>service.vendor</code>, <code>service.bundlelocation</code> and
     * <code>service.factoryPid</code>. If a property should not be available
     * for display in a configuration user interface, this parameter should be
     * set to true.
     */
    boolean propertyPrivate() default false;

    /**
     * Some properties may only be set to a set of possible values. To support
     * user interfaces which provide a selection list of values or a list of
     * checkboxes the option values and labels may be defined as parameters to
     * the {@link Property} annotation. All parameters in the form of name-value
     * pairs are used to build the list of available value options. The
     * parameter name is used as the value while the parameter value is used as
     * the label in the user interface. This label may be prepended with a %
     * sign to localize the string.
     * <p>
     * The options are written to the metatype.xml file as Option elements
     * inside the AD element defining the property. The name of the parameter
     * will be used for the Option.value attribute while the value of the
     * parameter defines the Option.label attribute.
     */
    PropertyOption[] options() default {};

}