[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Updated: (HV-532) Remove package cycle between "core" and "descriptor" packages

Remove package cycle between "core" and "descriptor" packages ------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HV-532 URL: https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HV-532 Project: Hibernate Validator Issue Type: Task Components: engine Affects Versions: 4.2.0.Final Reporter: Gunnar Morling Assignee: Gunnar Morling Fix For: 5.x There is a cyclic dependency between the packages {{org.hibernate.validator.metadata.core}} and {{org.hibernate.validator.metadata.descriptor}} which should be removed. I think the general problem is that {{ConstraintDescriptorImpl}} (which is now part of the "descriptor" model) is used globally in HV. Probably there should be a corresponding node in the internal model (actually we already have this with {{MetaConstraint}}), of which {{ConstraintDescriptorImpl}} would only be a light-weight view for external meta-model users. In {{ConstraintDescriptorImpl}} there is also a lot of logic related to annotation retrieval, which we now might move into the provider hierarchy similar to {{BeanMetaDataImpl}}.