What is the concern or issue with the comma-separated property in the org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule file?
If annotations were used, Groovy would need to scan the entire classpath looking for tagged classes. The property file allows only looking for a specific resource in each library on the classpath. ________________________________ From: adithyank <adi.k....@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 4:21 PM To: d...@groovy.incubator.apache.org Subject: Configuring Extension Module using Custom Annotation Hi Groovy Team, We have a DSL plug-in platform in our company. I advice people to write Extension module classes for existing Java classes for better readable code in groovy environment. In that perspective, I want to avoid every one having comma separated class name entries in `META-INF/groovy/org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule`.... With that idea, I am just thinking of alternative ways to declare the ExtensionModule classes. ------- Is it a decent idea to have annotations like @ExtensionClass and @StaticExtensionClass for Class types instead of manually declaring the class names in `META-INF/groovy/org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule`?? May be using apt (I am not sure), we can create the org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule for each compilation unit and let it go the classpath.... Let Groovy runtime work as usual...! I am just throwing my thoughts NOTE-1: Currently, the `META-INF/groovy/org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule` has the extension module classes. The IDE (Intellij Idea) is showing the extension methods with ctrl+space.... That is excellent and required. The same tooling support is required also with the idea mentioned above... NOTE-2: It the idea is considered for implementation, I am more than happy to work on this feature and submit PR... Regards, K Adithyan Thanks, Adithyan K India ________________________________ Sent from the Groovy Dev mailing list archive<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com_Groovy-2DDev-2Df372993.html&d=DwMCAg&c=4ZIZThykDLcoWk-GVjSLmy8-1Cr1I4FWIvbLFebwKgY&r=tPJuIuL_GkTEazjQW7vvl7mNWVGXn3yJD5LGBHYYHww&m=i7mGht4VOPlgEOiFFj3NqiX1oqeyh-ZdaIdpB0g-Sak&s=9HeaBoxbeYADd53quXCltCR0JT_YBGMSe63tPOA8-DI&e=> at Nabble.com.
