#ModuleAnnotations - Rethinking scope of ElementType.MODULE

[Paul Benedict]

I am wondering if the addition of ElementType.MODULE should be rethought.
When an annotation is applied to PACKAGE, it applies package-wide (and thus
affecting things inside it too). For example, I can put a JAXB
@XmlSchemaType annotation on a package to affect the way classes inside the
package are mapped.

However, the way annotations are being implemented on MODULE, if applies
just to that file -- not the entire module. But what if in the future there
is an RFE for annotations to apply to the entire module? Has it already
been decided that feature has no use cases? I think some pause should be
given here before this feature is taken away.

Cheers,
Paul

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <jan.lahoda at oracle.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:25 AM
Subject: hg: jigsaw/jake/jdk: Adding ElementType.MODULE as a target for
@SuppressWarnings.
To: jigsaw-dev at openjdk.java.net


Changeset: f985e08a0422
Author:    jlahoda
Date:      2016-07-08 16:20 +0200
URL:       http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jigsaw/jake/jdk/rev/f985e08a0422

Adding ElementType.MODULE as a target for @SuppressWarnings.
Contributed-by: joe.darcy at oracle.com

! src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/SuppressWarnings.java