[hibernate-dev] [HV] Programmatic definition of method level constraints

[Emmanuel Bernard]

Make sure you write a client of this API, I suspect Class<?>... parameterTypes might not be what you want.

On 8 avr. 2011, at 13:41, Kevin Pollet wrote:

> On vendredi 8 avril 2011 at 13:13, Gunnar Morling wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I also like https://gist.github.com/903302#file_1_method_configuration.java
>> best. As we already decided to accept some breaking changes around
>> ConstraintDef, I also think it's better to do other breaking changes
>> now instead of later.
>> 
>> Just one remark: we need a way to clearly identify overloaded methods.
>> In addition to ConstraintDef#method(String name) from the proposal
>> there should be another method like ConstraintDef#method(String name,
>> Class<?>... parameterTypes).
>> 
>> The first could be used if only one method with a given name exists,
>> the latter if several overloaded methods with the same name exist.
>> 
>> Gunnar
>  
> Good catch, I haven't seen this case. 
> My thinking is that only ConstraintDef#method(String name, Class<?>... parameterTypes) would suffice (parameterTypes is a varargs and can be empty).
> 
> --Kevin 
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