Github user jerrypeng commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/785#issuecomment-146948299
@revans2 I don't think you solution will work either. I don't think we can
get recursion and java annotations to work, since fields in annotations cannot
default to a specific non-null type. To have annotations that contain fields
of it self will result in a unending recursive definition:
ComplexValidator key() default
@ComplexValidator(type=Object.class, key=@ComplexValidator(type=Object.class,
key=@ComplexValidator(...), value=ComplexValidator(ype=Object.class,
key=@ComplexValidator(...));
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