Okay. Thanks for the clarification. Cheers, Paul
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Remi Forax <[email protected]> wrote: > The exact semantics of an annotation depends on the annotation itself. > > For some annotations on a class like @NonNull, the semantics applies on > all the code inside the class. For an annotation like @Table the semantics > as an effect on the class only. > > So it should not be different for an annotation on a module. > > Rémi > > > > On July 8, 2016 4:38:47 PM GMT+02:00, Paul Benedict <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I am wondering if the addition of ElementType.MODULE should be rethought. >> When an annotation is applied to PACKAGE, it applies package-wide (and thus >> affecting things inside it too). For example, I can put a JAXB >> @XmlSchemaType annotation on a package to affect the way classes inside the >> package are mapped. >> >> However, the way annotations are being implemented on MODULE, if applies >> just to that file -- not the entire module. But what if in the future there >> is an RFE for annotations to apply to the entire module? Has it already >> been decided that feature has no use cases? I think some pause should be >> given here before this feature is taken away. >> >> Cheers, >> Paul >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:25 AM >> Subject: hg: jigsaw/jake/jdk: Adding ElementType.MODULE as a target for >> @SuppressWarnings. >> To:[email protected] >> >> >> Changeset: f985e08a0422 >> Author: jlahoda >> Date: 2016-07-08 16:20 +0200 >> URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jigsaw/jake/jdk/rev/f985e08a0422 >> >> Adding ElementType.MODULE as a target for @SuppressWarnings. >> Contributed-by: [email protected] >> >> ! src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/SuppressWarnings.java >> >> > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >
