Package org.instancio.documentation

Annotation Type NonDeterministic

@Documented
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target({ANNOTATION_TYPE,CONSTRUCTOR,FIELD,METHOD,PACKAGE,TYPE})
public @interface NonDeterministic

This annotation marks APIs that produce data which cannot be guaranteed to be reproducible.

For example, generating dates using methods such as:

• TemporalSpec.past()
• TemporalSpec.future()

These methods rely on the current date as a reference point, which changes over time. Consequently, the same seed value might yield different results at different times.

Since:

5.0.0