JDK 8 RFR: 8009267: Restore isAnnotationPresent methods in public AnnotatedElement implementations

[Uwe Schindler]

My intention was to say "implementation removed".

Uwe

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Uwe Schindler
uschindler at apache.org 
Apache Lucene PMC Member / Committer
Bremen, Germany
http://lucene.apache.org/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Darcy [mailto:joe.darcy at oracle.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 5:16 PM
> To: Uwe Schindler
> Cc: 'Core-Libs-Dev'; 'Jonathan Gibbons'; 'Alexander Buckley'; 'Maurizio
> Cimadamore'
> Subject: Re: JDK 8 RFR: 8009267: Restore isAnnotationPresent methods in
> public AnnotatedElement implementations
> 
> On 03/02/2013 02:34 PM, Uwe Schindler wrote:
> > Looks good to me!
> > Are this the only methods in the corelib that were removed in favour of a
> default implementation in the interface?
> 
> I would not described the method as "removed," but to my knowledge
> AnnotatedElement.isAnnotationPresent was the only existing interface
> method in the core libraries replaced by a default method. The intended use
> case for default methods is adding new methods to interface and that
> change has certainly been done in other parts of the API.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Joe
> 
> >
> > Uwe
> >
> > -----
> > Uwe Schindler
> > uschindler at apache.org
> > Apache Lucene PMC Member / Committer
> > Bremen, Germany
> > http://lucene.apache.org/
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Joe Darcy [mailto:joe.darcy at oracle.com]
> >> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 3:06 AM
> >> To: Core-Libs-Dev
> >> Cc: Jonathan Gibbons; Alexander Buckley; Maurizio Cimadamore;
> >> uschindler at apache.org
> >> Subject: JDK 8 RFR: 8009267: Restore isAnnotationPresent methods in
> >> public AnnotatedElement implementations
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> The changes pushed under
> >>
> >>       8007113: Upgrade AnnotatedElement.isAnnotionPresent to be a
> >> default method
> >>       http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/e04467fa13af
> >>
> >> combined with how javac currently models default methods under
> >> pre-JDK-8 source versions can result in some source compatibility
> >> impacts for those using JDK 8 to compile under older source versions
> >> if the recommended practice of setting the bootclasspath is not
> >> followed. [1]
> >>
> >> To mitigate these impacts, I'm proposing the changes in
> >>
> >>       8009267: Restore isAnnotationPresent methods in public
> >> AnnotatedElement implementations
> >>       http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8009267.1/
> >>
> >> which have the effect of restoring a concrete isAnnotationPresent
> >> method to Class, Package, Field, Method, and Constructor. The
> >> implementation delegates to the default method on the
> AnnotatedElement interface.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -Joe
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/compiler-dev/2013-
> >> February/005738.html