Roland Zwaga created FLEX-33332:
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Summary: Make metadata annotations first class AS3 citizens
Key: FLEX-33332
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33332
Project: Apache Flex
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Compiler API
Affects Versions: Apache Flex 4.9.0
Reporter: Roland Zwaga
Priority: Minor
Currently metadata annotations are only checked by certain IDE's using some
sort of extra metadata.
Making metadata first class AS3 citizens would allow the compiler to check and
verify annotations.
So, for each metadata tag there would need to exist a corresponding AS3 class
that describes this tag,
In practice, an annotation like this:
[Bindable(event="dataChanged")]
public var data:String;
There would need to exist a class like this:
[MetadataAnnotation]
public class Bindable {
[Optional]
public var event:String;
}
Or something like that...
The MetadataAnnotation metadata would be the entry point for the compiler. The
actual class would not necessarily need to be compiled in the eventual target.
(Or maybe it should, perhaps for JS cross-compilation this could actually
enable annotation support...)
Thoughts? Suggestions?
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