net.openhft.chronicle.core.annotation

Annotation Type DontChain

@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
 @Target(value=TYPE)
public @interface DontChain

@DontChain indicates that an interface should be ignored by the chronicle-wire MethodReader and MethodWriter utilities. It is intended for library maintainers when excluding ancillary APIs from tooling. Chaining increases reflection cost and can break polymorphic dispatch.

Retention and effect: Retained at runtime but only acted upon by Chronicle tooling. It has no direct runtime behaviour.

 // Chained interface
 interface Service extends A, B { }

 // Not chained
  @DontChain
 interface Helper extends A, B { }
 

See Jvm.dontChain(Class) for the programmatic equivalent.

See Also:

UsedViaReflection