001/**
002 * Copyright 2005-2016 The Kuali Foundation
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007 *
008 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009 *
010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014 * limitations under the License.
015 */
016package org.kuali.rice.krad.data.provider.annotation;
017
018import org.kuali.rice.krad.data.provider.PersistenceProvider;
019
020import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
021import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
022import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
023import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
024import java.lang.annotation.Target;
025
026/**
027 * Indicates that this attribute should be forced to upper case before being sent to the {@link PersistenceProvider}.
028 * 
029 * <p>This is a *hint* only, visible to the system metadata. The KRAD Data module does not enforce it.</p>
030 *
031 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
032 */
033@Target(ElementType.FIELD)
034@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
035@Documented
036public @interface ForceUppercase {
037
038}