[weld-dev] AnnotationLiteral

[Gavin King]

Any annotation member has to b serializable anyway (primitive types,
strings, classes). So I don't see how this is a problem.

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
> Gavin, I wonder if we should actually have AnnotationLiteral and TypeLiteral
> actually implement Serializable as this places a burden on all subclasses,
> that they *must* be serializable (clearly this is not enforced, but it is
> correct, and the error messages users get will be a lot worse).
>
> Rather I wonder if *Literal should support subclasses which wish to
> implement Serializable. To do this we would just indicate this is the case
> in the javadoc and remove Serializable.
>
> WDYT?
>
> On 8 Nov 2009, at 09:31, Gavin King wrote:
>
>> Well, I couldn't sleep, so I fixed it.
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Gavin King <gavin.king at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So I've made some improvements to TypeLiteral and AnnotationLiteral,
>>> including making them serializable.
>>>
>>> I need to get some sleep now, but at the last minute I noticed that
>>> AnnotationLiteral is pretty broken for primitive array valued members.
>>> You can't do Object[].class.cast() on primitive arrays.
>>>
>>> We need to fix that before release.
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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