Welcome back Matt then. Are you putting yourself on deck to redo the type converters a la Log4j?
Gary On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: > Scratch that idea. It's using ASM. That's definitely not worth it. > > > On 2 June 2014 21:51, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm looking at how Spring does it, and for pre-1.8 code, it's quite the >> rabbit hole. I'll report back when I find my way out. >> >> >> On 2 June 2014 21:39, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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
