Scratch that idea. It's using ASM. That's definitely not worth it.

On 2 June 2014 21:51, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm looking at how Spring does it, and for pre-1.8 code, it's quite the
> rabbit hole. I'll report back when I find my way out.
>
>
> On 2 June 2014 21:39, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Not for the factory/builder stuff! Unless we cached more data about
>>> plugins like that.
>>>
>>
>> Ah, I made an incorrect assumption then. Let's keep it simple and require
>> the name then? We can always enhance later.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2 June 2014 21:32, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It would only happen at compile time... so who cares?
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In regards to the parameter reflection stuff, I can't find anything in
>>>>> 1.6 other than using
>>>>> Introspector.getBeanInfo(Class<?>).getMethodDescriptors() and
>>>>> MethodDescriptor.getParameterDescriptors(). From what I recall,
>>>>> Introspector is rather slow for this sort of situation and is mostly used
>>>>> in GUIs that deal with JavaBeans.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2 June 2014 21:20, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2 June 2014 21:14, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, my point is that you'd just use an annotation. What the
>>>>>>> annotation is, I do not know. I'm not crazy about the category idea in
>>>>>>> general because I am one typo away on a late night from getting stuck. 
>>>>>>> If
>>>>>>> the code does not compile, that's easier to fix.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree on that. It's terribly frustrating to deal with runtime
>>>>>> problems that should have been detectable at compile time. Perhaps 
>>>>>> instead
>>>>>> of categories we had a meta-annotation that describes a plugin category,
>>>>>> and then plugins can use a category annotation instead of the parameter? 
>>>>>> We
>>>>>> could really use annotations like this to make things more typed with 
>>>>>> less
>>>>>> typing.
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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