Really happy to see this. Thanks for kicking it off! -A
On Wednesday, July 24, 2013, Christian Gruber wrote: > Hey folks, > > So, just a quick note to this community about the tool "error-prone" and > its impact on Guice. > > Guice modules are not static, because of the configure() method, with > dynamic re-wiring based on conditionals or flow-control makes it impossible > to statically infer the whole wiring at compile-time. But, this doesn't > mean we can't do structural and systematic error checking at compile-time. > > To that end, I've had my intern working on a variety of checks for the > tool error-prone, a nice tool that wraps javac, and turns certain > conditions from static analysis into compile-time errors, with suggested > fixes, etc. I highly encourage folks to look at error-prone in general for > making some common programming errors compile-time errors, but the Guice > community should especially look at it, as we have been adding JSR-330 and > Guice-specific checks. > > One place we've tried to move the ball forward is to take things that are > currently Guice runtime errors, and move them to compile time. I'll make > further announcements (or my intern Steven Goldfeder will) once everything > is in place and error-prone releases with these changes, but I wanted to > encourage people to start checking out the tool now, because it's useful > today for other reasons, and if you're using it, then these checks will > start catching certain Guice errors early. > > Error-prone is an Apache-2.0-licensed open-source project by Google, which > can be found at https://code.google.com/p/error-prone/. > > Error-prone is integrated with ant, maven, with early access for IntelliJ. > It is not (yet) integrated with Eclipse, because it makes strong use of > com.sun.* classes to access the abstract syntax tree of the compiler, but > some folks are digging into how it can be made to work in an eclipse > environment. (Note, if you use M2E maven eclipse integration, you can use > Maven->RunAs to execute the maven build from within eclipse, and > error-prone will run if it's been integrated into maven.) > > regards, > Christian. > > Christian Gruber :: Google, Inc. :: Java Core Libraries :: Dependency > Injection > email: [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> :::: mobile: +1 (646) 807-9839 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-guice" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', 'google-guice%[email protected]');>. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-guice" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
