[jboss-as7-dev] Modules and hidden packages

Wed Apr 3 12:54:28 EDT 2013

Anything is possible!  Requiring build time steps is historically 
unpopular among certain... elements... but there is no technical reason 
why it would not work.

On 04/03/2013 11:39 AM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
> Could this or a package-level annotation be used at build time?
>
> We already "automate" adding in the resource stuff for our module.xml
> files. I know, I know, it's via ant, but could we create a maven plugin
> instead?
>
> On 4/3/13 11:25 AM, Jason Greene wrote:
>> If that doesn't turn out another idea would be to use manifest attributes.
>>
>> That can then easily be placed in your project's pom file.
>>
>> On Apr 3, 2013, at 10:57 AM, "David M. Lloyd" <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That's an interesting idea.  The problem though is that it requires the
>>> resource loader to be accessed during linking (as opposed to just
>>> scanning the string).  That might have a lesser performance impact than
>>> reading package-info.class, but I suspect it would still be
>>> non-negligible.  I'd have to test it and see what the impact is for sure
>>> though - it could be a viable solution.
>>>
>>> On 04/03/2013 10:50 AM, Jason Greene wrote:
>>>> What about sticking a market file in the package (e.g. "PRIVATE")?
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 3, 2013, at 10:40 AM, "David M. Lloyd" <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Like I said we already support private packages for the cases where the
>>>>> user (or integrator rather) doesn't mind spelling out those packages in
>>>>> the module.xml.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm just talking about doing this on an automatic basis for certain
>>>>> specially named packages so that this part is not necessary.  It's
>>>>> sounding like a lot of folks don't care for the idea though.
>>>>>
>>>>> I had wanted to support the use of a package-level annotation but there
>>>>> seems to be no way to do this that doesn't kill perf... oh well.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think this is something that would really impact customers or
>>>>> end users in any way though, unless we use a common package name
>>>>> segment.  Is that what you're getting at?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 04/02/2013 11:55 AM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>>>>>> For "my" modules I am more than happy to talk to customers if they use private / impl packages. We did categorize them for that very reason and it took us a lot of effort. I imagine we would enforce it in a major version shift anyways, so it worked be nice for modules to support that even if for your modules you would not want to use the feature.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2 avr. 2013, at 18:37, "David M. Lloyd" <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The problem is compatibility - because such packages are shared today,
>>>>>>> making them suddenly be unshared on a global basis would likely break
>>>>>>> things.  I would however be in favor of adding *._private.* support, or
>>>>>>> using another unlikely-to-exist option (_internal was suggested).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The reason for the underscore is twofold: first, "private" is a reserved
>>>>>>> word in Java so it can't be used from Java programs; second, it is not
>>>>>>> used by any projects that I am aware of at the moment, so the likelihood
>>>>>>> of breakage is basically zero.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 04/02/2013 11:29 AM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>>>>>>>> A few projects already use *.impl.* or *.private.* packages. Any reasons to use this unnatural (for Java) _private prefix? Could that be made a customizable Glob or regexp like pattern in the xml dd.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2 avr. 2013, at 18:14, Brian Stansberry <brian.stansberry at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Our logging IDs are already in the wild and are keys to knowledge base
>>>>>>>>> entries and google results. Is changing these a case where we are
>>>>>>>>> imposing pain on users in order to solve our own internal process problems?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 4/2/13 10:47 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> There is a mechanism in JBoss Modules to support packages which are not
>>>>>>>>>> visible to consumers of a module.  The idea is to come up with an easy
>>>>>>>>>> convention so that we can put module-private APIs and classes in one
>>>>>>>>>> place that is visible from multiple packages, without exposing or
>>>>>>>>>> documenting these packages.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Until 1.2, the only way available to do this for statically defined
>>>>>>>>>> modules was to add an export filter in your module.xml via the <exports>
>>>>>>>>>> element to exclude the specific package directories that are hidden.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Starting in 1.2, you can also create a series of packages whose first
>>>>>>>>>> segment is "_private".  These packages will automatically be excluded
>>>>>>>>>> from the exported paths list.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What I'd like to propose is:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 1) For any given module, all generated JavaDoc should exclude packages
>>>>>>>>>> under the _private hierarchy.
>>>>>>>>>> 2) For any module which does i18n logging, all logging messages should
>>>>>>>>>> be consolidated in one or more (but preferably one) interface(s) stored
>>>>>>>>>> in a public _private.org.yourproject.YourInterface.
>>>>>>>>>> 3) Once the new name is announced, I think we should break up our main
>>>>>>>>>> logging IDs into per-subsystem categories.  For example, "XXEE" for EE,
>>>>>>>>>> "XXEJB" for EJB, etc., each with their own numerical space and message
>>>>>>>>>> interface.  These two changes should put an end to our log message ID
>>>>>>>>>> fragmentation problems and give us a (one-time only!) chance to clean up
>>>>>>>>>> this mess.
>>>>>>>>>> 4) Projects that wish to exploit this mechanism can do so, noting that
>>>>>>>>>> they should use "_private.org.yourproject" as a package prefix instead
>>>>>>>>>> of just putting things directly under "_private" (to avoid conflicts
>>>>>>>>>> when JARs are used on a flat class path).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Flame on!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>> Principal Software Engineer
>>>>>>>>> JBoss by Red Hat
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