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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Google Inc.
+ *
+ * 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 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);
+}