On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not for the factory/builder stuff! Unless we cached more data about > plugins like that. > Ah, I made an incorrect assumption then. Let's keep it simple and require the name then? We can always enhance later. Gary > > > On 2 June 2014 21:32, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It would only happen at compile time... so who cares? >> >> Gary >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> In regards to the parameter reflection stuff, I can't find anything in >>> 1.6 other than using >>> Introspector.getBeanInfo(Class<?>).getMethodDescriptors() and >>> MethodDescriptor.getParameterDescriptors(). From what I recall, >>> Introspector is rather slow for this sort of situation and is mostly used >>> in GUIs that deal with JavaBeans. >>> >>> >>> On 2 June 2014 21:20, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2 June 2014 21:14, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Well, my point is that you'd just use an annotation. What the >>>>> annotation is, I do not know. I'm not crazy about the category idea in >>>>> general because I am one typo away on a late night from getting stuck. If >>>>> the code does not compile, that's easier to fix. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I agree on that. It's terribly frustrating to deal with runtime >>>> problems that should have been detectable at compile time. Perhaps instead >>>> of categories we had a meta-annotation that describes a plugin category, >>>> and then plugins can use a category annotation instead of the parameter? We >>>> could really use annotations like this to make things more typed with less >>>> typing. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Matt Sicker <[email protected]> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Matt Sicker <[email protected]> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <[email protected]> > -- E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
