[hibernate-dev] HHH-10487 - @Incubating annotation

[Steve Ebersole]

I don't have anything specific in mind.  Just more of a general thought
process, since its the first annotation of this type I am adding.


On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:11 PM Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> I would think that such a tool would work at compile time rather than
> reflectively at runtime, but one can't be sure of course so it depends
> on what you have in mind.
>
> I'd also say make @Incubating with CLASS retention, it's more than
> what people had before.. you can always evolve it later if someone
> come with a brilliant use case which requires more.
>
>
> On 29 January 2016 at 18:06, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> > I personally do not in terms of usage from ORM,  nor in usage by ORM
> users
> > either. I do wonder about tooling though. Like would it be useful for a
> > tool to see an implementation of an @Incubating contract being used and
> > warn the user?
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016, 12:02 PM Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Do you see any use case for accessing it reflectively at runtime?
> >>
> >> FWIW, OGM's @Experimental has CLASS retention, which I think is
> >> "enough retention" for its purpose.
> >>
> >> 2016-01-29 18:50 GMT+01:00 Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>:
> >> > Per HHH-10487[1], I want to add an @Incubating annotation to mark APIs
> >> that
> >> > are still incubating.  Specifically, what do y'all think of
> >> > `java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy#CLASS` versus
> >> > `java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy#RUNTIME`?
> >> >
> >> > [1] https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-10487
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