001    /**
002     * $Id: NotNull.java,v 1.2 2013/11/29 14:23:30 oboehm Exp $
003     *
004     * Copyright (c) 2008 by Oliver Boehm
005     *
006     * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
007     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
008     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
009     *
010     *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
011     *
012     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
013     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
014     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express orimplied.
015     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
016     * limitations under the License.
017     *
018     * (c)reated 06.12.2008 by oliver (ob@oasd.de)
019     */
020    package patterntesting.annotation.check.runtime;
021    
022    import java.lang.annotation.*;
023    
024    /**
025     * In contradiction to the NullPointerTrap which forbids all null arguments
026     * you can use a more relax strategy and mark only these parameter (and
027     * attributes) as "@NotNull" which should never be null.
028     * <br/>
029     * You can also mark fields with this annotation but this is at the moment not
030     * evaluated. But you can use it for documentation purposes.
031     * The same is true if you mark a method as @NotNull.
032     * <p>
033     * This annotation will be removed in 1.6.
034     * </p>
035     *
036     * @author <a href="boehm@javatux.de">oliver</a>
037     * @since 06.12.2008
038     * @version $Revision: 1.2 $
039     * @deprecated use javax.validation.constraints.NotNull
040     */
041    // TODO: remove me in 1.6
042    @Documented
043    @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
044    @Target({ElementType.PARAMETER, ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.FIELD})
045    @Deprecated
046    public @interface NotNull {
047    
048    }