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

[Kevin Bourrillion]

Even if you require the special target type as an admission ticket, it
seems like you still want to respect which of METHOD/FIELD/PARAMETER the
annotation is meant to apply to before propagating it, no?

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>
wrote:

> I think there are only two credible approaches:
>  - What you suggest -- which is credible because it refuses to "pick a
> winner";
>  - A new target kind for "record component".
>
> The latter is arguably better since it isn't trying to fit a square peg
> into a round hole, but is obviously more work.  (More work for us in spec
> and reflection for us; more work for frameworks as otherwise no frameworks
> will see the annos.)
>
> Anything else ("just put them on the fields") feels like picking one
> winning use case over another.
>
> On 4/10/2018 1:25 PM, Kevin Bourrillion wrote:
>
>> 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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