Hello Joe, The audience annotations began life in Hadoop. So far, within the Hadoop codebase, the annotations have not made any particular distinction about “designed for extensibility”. For a class annotated Public and Stable, we need to keep a commitment that the interface remains stable both for callers and subclasses overriding methods.
It’s possible to apply one annotation to the class and a different annotation to specific methods. If we had a use case for a class with stable public methods, but an internal protected method that can’t satisfy that guarantee, then we’d handle it by applying Public/Stable to the class and Private/Unstable to that individual method. That said, we definitely could consider enhancing the model if you want to propose something. We could potentially add something like an Extensible annotation to communicate that the class was designed with subclassing in mind. --Chris Nauroth On 7/26/16, 8:25 AM, "Joe Witt" <[email protected]> wrote: Cool - thanks Sean. I've outlined how we're going to attack the usage of this in NiFi once the artifact is available. One thing that would be interesting to discuss with you all is the notion of interface audience and stability from the perspective of a caller/user of that interface/class versus one who wants to extend it. Thanks Joe On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joe! > > As the assignee on YETUS-406, my apologies on not getting this taken > care of sooner. I'm not at my ASF signing machine ATM, so I can't > publish the artifacts yet. > > I should be able to get things done this evening (central time). I've > got the rough steps outlined on YETUS-406, so if another PMC member > happens to have a chance prior to that we'll get it taken care of. > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:07 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> In looking at downloads [1] it appears that artifacts are published to Maven central. However, in looking for them from any of the various maven repos I'm not finding them. I then see this JIRA [2]. >> >> Can you advise on the current state of deploying the maven artifacts to a public repo? >> >> Was really hoping to go to town using the 'audience-annotations' for Apache NiFi in advance of our upcoming major release. >> >> [1] https://yetus.apache.org/downloads/ >> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YETUS-406 >> >> Thanks >> Joe
