/**

  * Back 2 Browser Bytecode Translator

  * Copyright (C) 2012 Jaroslav Tulach <jaroslav.tulach@apidesign.org>

  *

  * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

  * the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the License.

  *

  * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

  * GNU General Public License for more details.

  *

  * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

  * along with this program. Look for COPYING file in the top folder.

  * If not, see http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.

  */

 package org.apidesign.bck2brwsr.core;

 import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;

 import java.lang.annotation.Retention;

 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;

 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

 /** Influence the inheritance of your class when converted to JavaScript.

  * Sometimes one does not want

  * to mimic the Java hierarchy, but modify it a bit. For example it makes

  * sense to treat every (JavaScript) string literal as {@link String}.

  * One can do it by making {@link String} subclass JavaScript <code>String</code>

  * and use <code>String.prototype</code> as a container for all {@link String}

  * methods.

  * 

  * @author Jaroslav Tulach <jtulach@netbeans.org>

  */

 @Retention(RetentionPolicy.CLASS)

 @Target({ ElementType.TYPE })

 public @interface JavaScriptPrototype {

     /** Expression that identifies the function where all methods

      * should be added into. If this attribute is unspecified

      * all methods are added to the same object specified by

      * {@link #prototype()}.

      * 

      * @return name of function to contain methods found in given class

      */

     String container() default "";

     /** Expression that defines the way to construct prototype for this

      * class.

      * @return expression to construct prototype

      */

     String prototype();

 }