Introduce dependencies for @Property annotations ------------------------------------------------ Key: JGRP-1066 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JGRP-1066 Project: JGroups Issue Type: Feature Request Affects Versions: 2.8 Reporter: Richard Achmatowicz Assignee: Richard Achmatowicz Priority: Minor Fix For: 2.8 When processing properties annotated by @Property in protocols, there is a need to reference one property when processing anoither; an example is that the setting of initial_hosts requires a list of host[port] entries, as well as a port_range value. Usually, this sort of property processing requirement forced delaying the processing of initial_hosts in the init() phase, after protocol property processing had completed. We introduce a dependency mechanism for @Property annotations: 1. @Properties have a name - it can either be explicitly specified in the annotation @Property(name=X) int i = 0 ; or it can default to the variable name of a Field @Property(desc=...) int Y = 0 ; ir it can default to the method name without the prefix set. @Property(desc=...) void setZ(int i) 2. You can specify a dependency on one or more properties (fields or methods) in the same protocol by specifying a comma separated list of @Property names in a dependsUpon attribte: @Property(name="X", desc=..., dependsUpon="Y,Z") int i = 0 ; This ensures that properties Y and Z will be processed by their converters (default or specified) before property X is processed. 3. Which leads to the main reason for introducing dependscies: in this way, the converter for property X may refer to the converters for property Y and Z in its processing. public static class InitialHosts implements PropertyConverter{ public Object convert(Protocol protocol, Class<?> propertyFieldType, Properties props, String propertyValue) throws Exception { int port_range = getPortRange(protocol) ; List<IpAddress> addresses = Util.parseCommaDelimitedHosts(propertyValue, port_range) ; return addresses ; } private int getPortRange(Protocol protocol) { int port_range = 0 ; try { Field f = protocol.getClass().getDeclaredField("port_range") ; port_range = ((Integer) Configurator.getField(f,protocol)).intValue() ; } catch(NoSuchFieldException e) { System.out.println("InitialHosts: no such field: port_range"); } return port_range ; } } -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira