Thanks for the quick response. And good point about method calls in annotations - I've updated the request to reflect.

This is indeed the same request as HV-1493 Closed , however I see what was implemented is a global flag rather then a per annotation definition option.

I think there are use cases where developers will want more finer grained control. Consider a source of sensors, which produce values every 100ms, ignoring those provided out of order within a 10ms buffer might be important, whereas say other logic within the same system might determine anything within 1 minute or 10 minutes as close enough.

I also think that defining the tolerance within the annotation properties is far more descriptive as it's close to the logic, whereas a global property is far removed from the logic and therefore less descriptive.