TagAnnotation

Annotation used to annotate annotation interfaces that define tags for ScalaTest tests.

Note: This is actually an annotation defined in Java, not a Scala trait. It must be defined in Java instead of Scala so it will be accessible at runtime. It has been inserted into Scaladoc by pretending it is a trait.

ScalaTest will only consider annotations that are themselves annotated with TagAnnotation as tag annotations, to avoid accidentally interpreting arbitrary annotations as tags. You use TagAnnotation, therefore, when you define a tag annotation (which you must do in Java). Here's an example:

package com.mycompany.myproject.testing.tags;

import java.lang.annotation.*;
import org.scalatest.TagAnnotation *

@TagAnnotation
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE})
public @interface DbTest {}

For more information, see the documentation for class Tag.