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Jeremy Hughes reassigned ARIES-1303:
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Assignee: Jeremy Hughes
> Return type for public API getRespository() is not exported
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> 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
> Assignee: Jeremy Hughes
> 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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