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It's a very common case when you keep a path in some property and you want to build a model based on a resource pointed by this path, e.g. you let authors configure references to some content and this reference is kept in property. To make reading of such referenced models easier, additional annotation @Follow was introduced - it allows mapper to map a resource by following a path stored under given property. It is possible to use this annotation in conjunction with @Children as well.
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