That's a very odd error to get for a symbol without a definition, and I'd
call that a bug. It's supposed to be a very clear error that "foo" is not
defined.
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Michael Prescott <
michael.r.presc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using Symbols injected into my app's tapestry module to read web
> context init parameters.
>
> class MyModule {
> @Inject
> @Symbol("myapp.hairinesslevel")
> private int hairinessLevel;
> }
>
> I run the app in a bunch of different ways - in jetty:run, deployed as a
> service, and in a web container, so occasionally I forget to define a
> symbol.
>
> Unfortunately, that tends to result in a very hard to read error about
> recursion in the definition of 'ApplicationDefaults'.
>
> Is there some canonical approach for injecting symbol that produces cleaner
> error messages when the symbol is undefined?
>
> Gratefully,
>
> Michael
>
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