Re: java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement changes

2013-02-15 Thread Martin Buchholz
Thanks, sounds like you have this potential problem under control. Hi Martin, > > FWIW, with my ccc hat on, I've previously (internally) asked the JCK team > to run such reports. IIRC, the methods on AnnotatedElement where the only > potentially problematic ones made so far. (We'll be added method

Re: java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement changes

2013-02-15 Thread Joseph Darcy
On 2/15/2013 3:49 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:10 AM, David Holmes wrote: On 15/02/2013 11:53 PM, Kasper Nielsen wrote: Hi, I know AnnotatedElement is not a common class to implement outside of the JDK. But the interface introduces some new methods that will break exi

Re: java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement changes

2013-02-15 Thread Martin Buchholz
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:10 AM, David Holmes wrote: > On 15/02/2013 11:53 PM, Kasper Nielsen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I know AnnotatedElement is not a common class to implement outside of the >> JDK. But the interface introduces some new methods that will break >> existing >> code. >> > > I must adm

Re: java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement changes

2013-02-15 Thread Alan Bateman
On 15/02/2013 13:53, Kasper Nielsen wrote: Hi, I know AnnotatedElement is not a common class to implement outside of the JDK. But the interface introduces some new methods that will break existing code. Yes, this needs to be considered to avoid the source compatibility issue. Here's the bug tr

Re: java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement changes

2013-02-15 Thread David Holmes
On 15/02/2013 11:53 PM, Kasper Nielsen wrote: Hi, I know AnnotatedElement is not a common class to implement outside of the JDK. But the interface introduces some new methods that will break existing code. I must admit I am surprised as I thought that any new methods on interfaces would have

Re: java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement changes

2013-02-15 Thread Kasper Nielsen
by introduces, I mean the additional methods going into Java8. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Kasper Nielsen wrote: > Hi, > > I know AnnotatedElement is not a common class to implement outside of the > JDK. But the interface introduces some new methods that will break existing > code. > > For

java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement changes

2013-02-15 Thread Kasper Nielsen
Hi, I know AnnotatedElement is not a common class to implement outside of the JDK. But the interface introduces some new methods that will break existing code. For example, Guava, which has the Parameter class ( https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/source/browse/guava/src/com/google/common/r