On 2020-07-29T12:22:33 +0200 Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> wrote: > > I think your usage is correct. Maybe the docs aren't sharp enough saying > that those case just examples which require a provided scope. You can, > of course, improve the docs in such a fashion. > Out of couriosity, can you give you can example for your usecase?
I frequently use `provided` for compile-time only annotations. For example, the immutables.org generator uses annotations to generate immutable record types. The OSGi bundle annotations are processed by the bnd-* plugin family and allow for adding extra information to OSGi manifests in jar files. None of those annotations are retained, and we don't expect anything to be available at runtime. -- Mark Raynsford | https://www.io7m.com
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