public @interface

VisibleForTesting

implements java.lang.annotation.Annotation

 androidx.annotation.VisibleForTesting

Gradle dependencies

compile group: 'androidx.annotation', name: 'annotation', version: '1.4.0-beta01'

  • groupId: androidx.annotation
  • artifactId: annotation
  • version: 1.4.0-beta01

Artifact androidx.annotation:annotation:1.4.0-beta01 it located at Google repository (https://maven.google.com/)

Androidx artifact mapping:

androidx.annotation:annotation com.android.support:support-annotations

Androidx class mapping:

androidx.annotation.VisibleForTesting android.support.annotation.VisibleForTesting

Overview

Denotes that the class, method or field has its visibility relaxed, so that it is more widely visible than otherwise necessary to make code testable.

You can optionally specify what the visibility should have been if not for testing; this allows tools to catch unintended access from within production code.

Example:


  @VisibleForTesting(otherwise = VisibleForTesting.PROTECTED)
  public String printDiagnostics() { ... }
 
If not specified, the intended visibility is assumed to be private.

Summary

Fields
public static final intNONE

The annotated element should never be called from production code, only from tests.

public static final intPACKAGE_PRIVATE

The annotated element would have "package private" visibility

public static final intPRIVATE

The annotated element would have "private" visibility

public static final intPROTECTED

The annotated element would have "protected" visibility

Fields

public static final int PRIVATE

The annotated element would have "private" visibility

public static final int PACKAGE_PRIVATE

The annotated element would have "package private" visibility

public static final int PROTECTED

The annotated element would have "protected" visibility

public static final int NONE

The annotated element should never be called from production code, only from tests.

This is equivalent to @RestrictTo.Scope.TESTS.

Source

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2015 The Android Open Source Project
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package androidx.annotation;

import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.CLASS;

import java.lang.annotation.Retention;

/**
 * Denotes that the class, method or field has its visibility relaxed, so that it is more widely
 * visible than otherwise necessary to make code testable.
 * <p>
 * You can optionally specify what the visibility <b>should</b> have been if not for
 * testing; this allows tools to catch unintended access from within production
 * code.
 * <p>
 * Example:
 * <pre><code>
 *  &#64;VisibleForTesting(otherwise = VisibleForTesting.PROTECTED)
 *  public String printDiagnostics() { ... }
 * </code></pre>
 *
 * If not specified, the intended visibility is assumed to be private.
 */
@Retention(CLASS)
public @interface VisibleForTesting {
    /**
     * The visibility the annotated element would have if it did not need to be made visible for
     * testing.
     */
    @ProductionVisibility
    int otherwise() default PRIVATE;

    /**
     * The annotated element would have "private" visibility
     */
    int PRIVATE = 2; // Happens to be the same as Modifier.PRIVATE

    /**
     * The annotated element would have "package private" visibility
     */
    int PACKAGE_PRIVATE = 3;

    /**
     * The annotated element would have "protected" visibility
     */
    int PROTECTED = 4; // Happens to be the same as Modifier.PROTECTED

    /**
     * The annotated element should never be called from production code, only from tests.
     * <p>
     * This is equivalent to {@code @RestrictTo.Scope.TESTS}.
     */
    int NONE = 5;
}