Tim Baldwin created ARIES-1303:
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Summary: Return type for public API getRespository() is not
exported
Key: ARIES-1303
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARIES-1303
Project: Aries
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Blueprint
Affects Versions: blueprint-core-1.3.0
Reporter: Tim Baldwin
Priority: Minor
The interface class
"org.apache.aries.blueprint.services.ExtendedBlueprintContainer" in the
blueprint-core component is a public interface that contains a deprecated
internal API method:
/**
* To be removed as internal API
*/
@Deprecated
Repository getRepository();
Because this is a public API interface this method is part of a public exported
package and is visible to applications, however the return type for the method
"org.apache.aries.blueprint.di.Repository" is an internal class and is not
exported.
This can cause issues with tooling that performs checking that all public
methods, parameters and return types form a consistent set.
Ideally this deprecated method should be removed from the public interface (I
don't believe it can actually be used by anyone as the return type is not
accessible), but as it is used internally it would need moving to some other
internal only interface (along with all resulting references).
Alternatively, while the deprecated method remains visible, the return type
should be publicly exported too.
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