Romain, I think that reflection was already clearly stated to not be the way to go (see Marks mail some days ago). I follow Mark hereby completely, also due to performance reasons.
Also when we would add a method returning the expected formats (which I think would be a very useful thing) we would loose the functional aspects, if we add the I see the following options currently: 1) Define an annotation, e.g. @ConverterSpec to add to the meta-info automatically for the auto-registered PropertyProvider instances. 2) Add an additional interface, extending PropertyProvider that adds the additional methods. This interface then must be used for registration and adds the missing functionality. 3) We could let be PropertyProvider to be non functional, but add in Java 8 an additional method to Configuration, which tykes a Function<String,T>. -Anatole 2015-01-20 16:33 GMT+01:00 Romain Manni-Bucau <[email protected]>: > The annotation by itself doesn't make of the interface a > FunctionalInterface or the opposite (ie you can be without it) - so > yes this is fully useless from a code/bytecode point of view. That's > because getTargetType() was added. > > I'd just remove it and use reflection to determine it. We would then > be able to do a lot more than simple Class which are more and more > java 1.4 (it is very funny to see it aside java 8 code ;)) > > > Romain Manni-Bucau > @rmannibucau > http://www.tomitribe.com > http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com > https://github.com/rmannibucau > > > 2015-01-20 16:18 GMT+01:00 Werner Keil <[email protected]>: > > How, did it lose the annotation or was the method signature changed > > violating the Functional Interface definition? > > > > Werner > > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Reinhard Sandtner < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hey guys > >> > >> build is broken since PropertyConverter is no longer a > FunctionalInterface > >> :-( > >> > >> shall i fix it or is someone working on it? > >> > >> lg > >> reini > -- *Anatole Tresch* Java Engineer & Architect, JSR Spec Lead Glärnischweg 10 CH - 8620 Wetzikon *Switzerland, Europe Zurich, GMT+1* *Twitter: @atsticks* *Blogs: **http://javaremarkables.blogspot.ch/ <http://javaremarkables.blogspot.ch/>* *Google: atsticksMobile +41-76 344 62 79*
