FieldNamingStrategy.java

package com.google.gson;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

/**
 * A mechanism for providing custom field naming in Gson. This allows the client code to translate
 * field names into a particular convention that is not supported as a normal Java field declaration
 * rules. For example, Java does not support "-" characters in a field name.
 *
 * @author Inderjeet Singh
 * @author Joel Leitch
 * @since 1.3
 */
public interface FieldNamingStrategy {

    /**
     * Translates the field name into its JSON field name representation.
     *
     * @param f the field object that we are translating
     * @return the translated field name.
     * @since 1.3
     */
    public String translateName(Field f);
}