[jbosstools-dev] @Target for qualifier type

[Alexey Kazakov]

  Sure.

On 11/23/2010 05:41 PM, Pete Muir wrote:
> Can you file an issue with the archetypes, they are wrong.
>
> On 23 Nov 2010, at 14:41, Pete Muir wrote:
>
>> I think it should have the @Target's that the spec describes, anything else is non-portable. Erroring, or maybe warning (I would prefer an error), is a good idea.
>>
>> On 23 Nov 2010, at 14:27, Alexey Kazakov wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Pete,
>>>
>>> Could you take a look at https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-7710
>>> JSR-299 says that a qualifier type is a Java annotation defined as @Target({METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE}) or @Target({FIELD, PARAMETER}) (an event qualifier type):
>>>
>>> 2.3.2. Defining new qualifier types
>>> A qualifier type is a Java annotation defined as @Target({METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE}) and @Retention(RUNTIME).
>>> ...
>>>
>>> 10.1. Event types and qualifier types
>>> ...
>>> An event qualifier type is just an ordinary qualifier type as specified in Section 2.3.2, “Defining new qualifier types” with the exception that it may be declared @Target({FIELD, PARAMETER}).
>>> ...
>>>
>>> But the spec doesn't require to treat other kinds of @Target (for example @Target({FIELD, METHOD, PARAMETER} which is used in weld-jsf-jee archetype) as a definition error.
>>> It seems that we got it wrong and if there is any @Target except @Target({METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE}) or @Target({FIELD, PARAMETER}) then JBT marks such definitions as errors:
>>> Qualifier annotation type must be annotated with @Target({TYPE, METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER}) or @Target({METHOD, FIELD}) [JSR-299 §2.3.2, §10.1]
>>> Can you confirm that actually a qualifier type could have any @Target?
>>>
>>> Thanks.