Annotation Type HintValue

@Retention(CLASS) @Target(FIELD) public @interface HintValue

What an enum constant is called on the wire.

The builders compare against a literal, and the constant name is not it: IOS7 happens to lowercase to ios7, but INTERNAL_ONLY does not lowercase to internalOnly, and java.version accepts 8, 11, 17 and 21, none of which can be a constant name at all. A builder handed a value it does not recognize falls back to its default, so a name-based conversion fails silently -- which is the failure this whole package removes.

  • Required Element Summary

    Required Elements
    Modifier and Type
    Required Element
    Description
    String
    value
    The literal the builder compares against.

  • Optional Element Summary

    Optional Elements
    Modifier and Type
    Optional Element
    Description
    String[]
    accepts
    Other spellings the builder accepts for this same behaviour.
    String
    label
    How the Settings editor labels this choice, when the wire value is not presentable on its own.

  • Element Details

    • value

      String value
      The literal the builder compares against.

    • accepts

      String[] accepts

      Other spellings the builder accepts for this same behaviour.

      flat and ios7 are one theme, and a properties file may say either. They are not separate constants -- one behaviour, one constant, or the annotation asks a question with no right answer -- so the alternatives live here, and cn1:migrate-build-hints uses them to turn whichever spelling a project wrote into the constant it means.

      Default:
      {}

    • label

      String label
      How the Settings editor labels this choice, when the wire value is not presentable on its own.
      Default:
      ""