Repeatable

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• The @Repeatable annotation is used to indicate that an annotation type can be applied multiple times to the same declaration.

• @Repeatable's value method specifies the container annotation type that holds the repeated annotations.

• It's a meta-annotation, meaning it annotates other annotation types.

• @Repeatable leverages container annotations to store multiple instances of the repeatable annotation.

public abstract @interface Repeatable implements Annotation

The annotation type java.lang.annotation.Repeatable is used to indicate that the annotation type whose declaration it (meta-)annotates is repeatable. The value of @Repeatable indicates the containing annotation type for the repeatable annotation type.

Public Method Summary

Class<? extends Annotation>

value() Indicates the containing annotation type for the repeatable annotation type.

Inherited Method Summary

From interface java.lang.annotation.Annotation

abstract Class<? extends Annotation>	annotationType() Returns the annotation type of this annotation.
abstract boolean	equals(Object obj) Returns true if the specified object represents an annotation that is logically equivalent to this one.
abstract int	hashCode() Returns the hash code of this annotation, as defined below: The hash code of an annotation is the sum of the hash codes of its members (including those with default values), as defined below: The hash code of an annotation member is (127 times the hash code of the member-name as computed by String.hashCode()) XOR the hash code of the member-value, as defined below: The hash code of a member-value depends on its type: The hash code of a primitive value v is equal to WrapperType.valueOf(v).hashCode(), where WrapperType is the wrapper type corresponding to the primitive type of v (Byte, Character, Double, Float, Integer, Long, Short, or Boolean).
abstract String	toString() Returns a string representation of this annotation.

Public Methods

public Class<? extends Annotation> value ()

Indicates the containing annotation type for the repeatable annotation type.

Returns

• the containing annotation type