[bv-dev] Spec question on constructors

[Matt Benson]

Hi Gunnar,
  I don't see that Apache BVal has done this either, but TBH our
metadata is somewhat a mess by this time and I hope to rewrite it for
v2.0.

Matt

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> I agree that this sentence shouldn't be there in the JavaDoc; I reckon
> it's a copy & paste mistake from getConstraintsForMethod().
>
> Indeed the RI doesn't return a descriptor for a super-type
> constructor. Do you know whether it's the same for Apache BVal? If so
> I think we should remove the sentence from the JavaDoc. I don't see it
> as a migration concern if no certified impl ever implemented that
> behaviour.
>
> --Gunnar
>
>
> 2017-06-15 17:15 GMT+02:00 Matt Benson <mbenson at apache.org>:
>> The last paragraph of section 5.6.5 states that inheritance rules do
>> not apply to constructors as these are not inherited. However, the
>> Javadoc of BeanDescriptor#getConstraintsForConstructor(Class<?>...)
>> says "Constructor of super types are considered." While it could be
>> possible to implement this, what would be the point? These notions
>> feel at odds with one another.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
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