```
@Target({METHOD,CONSTRUCTOR})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Documented
public @interface ProtoFactory
```
An optional annotation that designates the constructor or static method that is used for creating instances of a message class. Cannot be used with instance methods. The method or constructor must not be private and must have a signature containing the exact same number of parameters as the protobuf fields of the corresponding message. Each parameter must correspond to a protobuf field, named identically to the name of the Java field/property used for declaring the protobuf field and the type of each parameter must also be identical to the Java type of the corresponding field/property. The ordering of parameters versus fields is not relevant because they are matched by name, not by position.
A single constructor or static method is allowed to have this annotation in a ProtoStream marshallable class.
This annotation is not inherited, occurrences in superclass/superinterfaces are ignored for current class.
This annotation can be used support creation of immutable messages (that have final fields or do not have setters). In that case all protobuf fields should be declared with annotations on instance fields or getter methods.
This annotation is not mandatory, but classes that do not have a constructor or static method annotated with this annotation are expected to have an accessible no-argument constructor instead to be used for instantiating the class.
NOTE: This annotation can be processed at runtime (see ProtoSchemaBuilder) only if method parameter name debug information was emitted into the class file by the compiler, ie. the compiler was invoked with the -parameters flag. Usage of this annotation at compile time is possible regardless of that.

Since:

4.3

Author:

anistor@redhat.com

Annotation Type ProtoFactory