[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-630) Revise javax.enterprise.util.AnnotationLiteral.cachedHashCode

[Matej Novotny (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-630?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13292251#comment-13292251 ] 

Matej Novotny commented on CDI-630:
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So, if I get this right, then we are basically stuck here because our {{hashCode}} impl has to be alligned with that defined by {{java.lang.annotation.Annotation}}?
And the reason behind that is that people are able to use both approaches ({{class.getAnnotation}} and {{AnnotationLiteral}}) and the results would then differ.

> Revise javax.enterprise.util.AnnotationLiteral.cachedHashCode
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>                 Key: CDI-630
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-630
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>            Reporter: Martin Kouba
>             Fix For: 2.0 (discussion)
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> Currently, {{AnnotationLiteral.hashCode()}} always returns {{0}} if there are no members (ignoring annotation type completely). Although it does not break {{Object.hashCode()}} contract, I believe we should either return a number based on the annotation type (to make the annotation literal instances more usable in hash tables) or simply return zero and don't cache the value at all.



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