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Konrad Windszus reassigned OAK-10252:
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Assignee: Konrad Windszus
> Distinguish in oak-jackrabbit-api between provider and consumer type
> interfaces
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> Key: OAK-10252
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-10252
> Project: Jackrabbit Oak
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: jackrabbit-api
> Reporter: Konrad Windszus
> Assignee: Konrad Windszus
> Priority: Major
>
> Currently there is no annotation related to Provider or Consumer type
> maintained on the interfaces of
> https://github.com/apache/jackrabbit-oak/tree/trunk/oak-jackrabbit-api.
> That leads to a default of all interfaces being assumed ConsumerType and
> therefore requiring all backwards-incompatible changes a major version
> increment (which breaks every consuming bundle).
> For ProviderType interfaces
> (https://docs.osgi.org/javadoc/osgi.annotation/7.0.0/org/osgi/annotation/versioning/ProviderType.html)
> bq. A non-binary-compatible change to a provider type normally requires
> incrementing the major version of the type's package. This change will
> require all providers and all consumers to be updated to handle the change.
> However, a non-binary-compatible change affecting a protected access member
> only requires incrementing the minor version of the type's package. This
> change will require all providers to be updated to handle the change, but
> consumers will not require changes since they only use, and do not extend,
> the provider type and thus could not access protected access members of the
> provider type.
> While for ConsumerType interfaces (the default)
> (https://docs.osgi.org/javadoc/osgi.annotation/7.0.0/org/osgi/annotation/versioning/ConsumerType.html)
> bq. A non-binary-compatible change to a consumer type or a binary-compatible
> change to a consumer type affecting an abstract method normally requires
> incrementing the major version of the type's package. This change will
> require all providers and all consumers to be updated to handle the change
> since consumers that implement or extend the consumer type and all providers
> must understand the change in the consumer type.
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