Göktürk Gezer created FELIX-3889:
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Summary: Excluding run-time visible annotations from custom
handler processing
Key: FELIX-3889
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3889
Project: Felix
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: iPOJO
Reporter: Göktürk Gezer
Assignee: Göktürk Gezer
Priority: Minor
Annotations those put to ipojo components along with @Component annotation are
treated as custom handler annotations. This make it impossible to put
annotations to components for other purposes.
There are plenty of codes depend on reading run-time visible annotations at
run-time. Due to current behavior of annotation processing we're lefting out
those codes.
Besides there is no point in making handler annotation runtime visible, since
handler itself will already see those annotation in generated metadata. Also
reading handler annotation's attributes at run-time is clear design
inefficiency and does not worth to left out all existing codes depend on
runtime visible annotations.
Lefting out annotations with runtime retention policy at handler metadata
generation will fix all those issues above.
This change won't affect current IPojo code and any custom handler
implementation I know of, though it'll improve the component's capability to
engage with other 3th party codes mentioned above.
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