001/*-
002 *******************************************************************************
003 * Copyright (c) 2011, 2016 Diamond Light Source Ltd.
004 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
005 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
006 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
007 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
008 *
009 * Contributors:
010 *    Peter Chang - initial API and implementation and/or initial documentation
011 *******************************************************************************/
012
013package org.eclipse.january.metadata;
014
015import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
016import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
017import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
018import java.lang.annotation.Target;
019
020/**
021 * This is an annotation for any metadata field that should be sliced. These include lazy datasets,
022 * arrays and lists of lazy datasets, and maps where the values are lazy datasets.
023 */
024@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
025@Target(value = ElementType.FIELD)
026public @interface Sliceable {
027}