Records -- Using them as JPA entities and validating them with Bean Validation

[Kevin Bourrillion]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:

>
>   * Annotation semantics: I couldn't find any example of records with
> annotations, but IIUC, something like
>
>         @Entity record Book(@Id long id, String isbn) { ... }
>
>     would desugar into
>
>         class @Entity public class Book { private @Id long id, private
> String isbn; ... };
>
>     For the JPA entity use case it'd be helpful to have an option to lift
> annotations to the corresponding getters instead of the fields (as the
> location of the @Id annotation controls the default strategy -- field vs.
> property -- for reading/writing entity state). Similarly, Bean Validation
> would benefit from such option.
>

My assumption has been that we would allow an annotation on a record
parameter as long as it has *any of *{FIELD,METHOD,PARAMETER} as target,
and that the annotation would be automatically propagated to each
synthesized element it applies to. Does this sound about right to everyone?


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