Revert deletion of Factory so that third-party code continues to compile against the latest Hamcrest version

npryce · npryce · commit 9c12e22b4564 · 2014-12-30T23:53:46.000Z
diff --git a/hamcrest-core/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/Factory.java b/hamcrest-core/src/main/java/org/hamcrest/Factory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package org.hamcrest;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
+import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
+
+/**
+ * Marks a Hamcrest static factory method so tools recognise them.
+ * A factory method is an equivalent to a named constructor.
+ *
+ * @deprecated The code generator is no longer maintained. Write classes of syntactic sugar by hand.
+ * @author Joe Walnes
+ */
+@Retention(RUNTIME)
+@Target({METHOD})
+@Deprecated
+public @interface Factory {
+}
