[infinispan-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (ISPN-857) Favour Externalizer method implementations over @Marshalls annotation values

Favour Externalizer method implementations over @Marshalls annotation values ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: ISPN-857 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-857 Project: Infinispan Issue Type: Bug Components: Marshalling Affects Versions: 5.0.0.ALPHA1 Reporter: Galder Zamarreño Assignee: Galder Zamarreño Fix For: 5.0.0.BETA1 Enhance Externalizer interface with methods for getTypeClasses(), getTypeClassNames() and getId() in favour of annotations. The reason for doing this is twofold: - The use of annotations makes it difficult for other apps to abstract the externalizer framework. - Runtime errors not caught at compilation time could arise from code like this where X and Y have no relationship: @Marshalls(typeClasses = Y.class, id = ExternalizerIds.XExternalizer) public class XExternalizer implements Externalizer<X> { In particular, code like this would maintain guarantees between classes externalized and return of readObject(): List<Class<? extends T>> getTypeClasses();