I'm leaning towards the inner annotations. They fix the um.... non-pretty :>) names and there is no doubt about the Plural intention.
John Griffin
On Feb 18, 2009 8:35am, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel@hibernate.org> wrote:
> I have added the following plural forms
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> AssertFalses
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> AssertTrues
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> //Digits to be redefined
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> Futures
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> Maxs
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> Mins
>
> NotNulls
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> Nulls
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> Pasts
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> Patterns
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> Sizes
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>
>
> As you can see not all names are pretty. Any improvement proposal?
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>
>
> Alternatively, we could define inner annotations to define the plural, ie
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>
>
> @interface Max {
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> String message() default "...";
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> Class groups() default {};
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>
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> public static @interface Plural {
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> Max[] value();
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> }
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> }
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>
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> @Max.Plural( {
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> @Max(30, groups=JoeSixPack.class),
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> @Max(100, groups=PowerUser.class)
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> } )
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>
>
> WDYT?
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