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Interfaces
- Annotation
Enums
- ElementType
- RetentionPolicy
Exceptions
- AnnotationTypeMismatchException
- IncompleteAnnotationException
Errors
- AnnotationFormatError

Summary: Inherited Methods | [Expand All]

Added in API level 1

public abstract @interface

Retention

implements Annotation

java.lang.annotation.Retention

Class Overview

Defines a meta-annotation for determining the scope of retention for an annotation. If the retention annotation is not set RetentionPolicy.CLASS is used as default retention.

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Inherited Methods

From interface java.lang.annotation.Annotation

abstract Class <? extends Annotation >	annotationType () Returns the type of this annotation.
abstract boolean	equals ( Object obj) Determines whether or not this annotation is equivalent to the annotation passed.
abstract int	hashCode () Returns the hash code of this annotation.
abstract String	toString () Returns a `String` representation of this annotation.

Results

Interfaces

Enums

Exceptions

Errors

Retention

Class Overview

Summary