Questions tagged [annotations]
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Clean Architecture and Persistence Annotations
If one wants to comply with the clean architecture principle 100%, they must not annotate the entities in the entities layer with database-specific annotations (like Hibernate, Neo4j, etc.). So, two ...
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Passing and using properties through annotations in Java
I have a Java EE Application in which I have an Interceptor class like this
@Interceptor
@Logged
public class LogInterceptor {
@AroundInvoke
public Object logMethod(InvocationContext context) ...
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How to annotate a codebase as you're learning it? [duplicate]
When I first a codebase, I frequently take notes about it, as this SO answer suggests.
If some code chunk is small enough, I copy-paste to Word, print it out, and make hand-written annotation. If the ...
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Reason for sudden rise in popularity of compile-time annotation processing in Java [closed]
So compile-time annotation processing is as old as the annotations themselves in Java. Yet most of the useful libraries were developed with the runtime approach in mind – at least at first.
Now, ...
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Should I create seperate interfaces as a way to centralize annotation?
Assume I have these classes:
@Entity
@Data
class Student{
@Size(min = 8)
public String name;
public int age;
...
}
@Data
class StudentDTO{
@Size(min = 8)
public String name;
...
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Do Annotations Improve Performance in Java?
I understand that Annotations aren't directly used in compiled Java programs outside of access through the reflection API or some other means.
Annotations, a form of metadata, provide data about a ...
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Inheritence due to annotations
I have a set of annotations which are used for tracking failures/success of a function.
Now, there is a class A which has a function f(). This function needs to be invoked for different business use-...
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Why 'Package' type does not inherit 'AccessibleObject' type?
Below are the relevant types(in java) for annotation processing,
In addition to Field & Method types, Package type is also used in context of annotations with reflection, because these types ...
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Annotation to define values for method argument
In a project, I have a task scheduling service, which is allowed to execute certain public methods from other services. Each service decides itself, which methods it want to make available for the ...
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What is the best use of @Deprecated Java annotation for a monolithic server code with multiple clients?
There is that @Deprecated annotation which suits well for Java libraries.
A minor release change would not break an existing code if a deprecated library method remains. The library compilation will ...
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Is practice of using Annotations detrimental to code quality and longer term code maintenance?
With Doctrine annotation processing engine for PHP, and Annotatons being used for Doctrine Entities and for Zend Form, and possibly other things, and use in other languages as well, it looks like ...
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Can you use annotations for any use-case of Web.xml in Java EE?
Nowadays I have been practising Java EE. There are may annotations which simplify configuration of servlet container. Such as:
@WebServlet
@WebInitParam
@ServletSecurity
etc.
You can do the ...
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What should I use for @Nullable if I used the lombok @NonNull?
I am using the lombok @NonNull annotation for some of my fields, parameters and methods, partly for null checking, and also partly for documentation purpose. It is then confusing if I added a @NonNull/...
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Using old-styled inheritance over annotations in Java
What are the actual perks of using an annotation that adds a particular functionality to a class or a block of code (other than rapid development purposes of course)? This may come down to preferences ...
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Should I annotate all the entry points in my library?
In a library project, I see numerous warnings suggesting that I reduce the visibility of public classes and methods. (Or in the case of methods I haven't written tests for, warnings about them being ...
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For Object Oriented Programming purists, are @annotations heresy?
Philosophical Question:
An issue that occurred to me is that especially when using frameworks like Spring or Hibernate ( which are everywhere in industry), we have annotate everything.
This is ...
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Are decorators/annotations the result of bad design decisions?
Talking generic, there are programming languages who make more or less use of annotations and decorators.
Be it to add type information to variables in a dynamically typed language or to add "...
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What are the justifications for annotations in a programming language? [closed]
After spending a great deal of time writing C# and looking at Java, it seems to me that annotations are just an ugly code smell that introduce another conceptual layer that could easily be replaced by ...
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Standard for order of tags in PHP DocBlocks? [closed]
Based on the tags listed from this "standard", is there an order of the tags that people typically follow? Even if it's not something that has been entirely accepted, but something proposed? I am ...
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How can attributes/annotations be illustrated on a UML class diagram?
Many programming languages offer a way to annotate types.
For instance, in .NET this can be achieved by deriving a custom attribute class from System.Attribute and then annotating another type with ...
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“One of some”-type
Say that you have some different classes that does not really have any functionality in common, but somewhere in your program, you need one of them (which one is not necessarily important) because ...
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How to write a new annotation that behaves precisely like an existing one?
Here is my use case. Suppose annotations did have inheritance and would automatically inherit the entire behaviour of the base class. Then I would do the following (note the two package statements):
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Where to put JPA annotations? Field, or getter?
version in field:
@Column(name = "SAMPLE_STRING")
private String sampleString;
public String getSampleString(){
return sampleString;
}
version in getter:
private String sampleString;
@...
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How to annotate method signature changes?
I'm developing a mini framework and I want to perform changes to existing methods. I know in order to deprecate a method I can use the @deprecated annotation. However, what annotation should I use to ...
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A programming language that allows you to define new limits for simple types
Many languages like C++, C#, and Java allow you to create objects that represent simple types like integer or float. Using a class interface you can override operators and perform logic like checking ...
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Requirement specifications with annotations? [closed]
I'm curious if there are any templates using annotations such as ambiguous, needs update and so on. Industrial or Academic does not matter.
If there are, are there any way tools available that use ...
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What are the benefits vs costs of comment annotation in PHP?
I have just started working with symfony2 and have run across comment annotations.
Although comment annotation is not an inherent part of PHP, symfony2 adds support for this feature.
My ...
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Java sql annotations ManyToMany relationships
I was wondering your thoughts on the best way to implement a SQL ManyToMany relationship in Java using annotations - in this case eBeans - where there is extra data associated with the join.
I have ...
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is it possible to auto-generate annotated POJO from a table
I wonder is it possible or is there a tool to generate annotated POJOs from a table.To make it clear,for example,Person table has fields like ,id,name,surname etc and i wanna to generate a POJO named ...
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What problems are Java annotations well suited to? [closed]
I've been writing in Java and C# for a while, but I'm having a hard time identifying places where using a custom annotation would be advantageous.
I can see that JUnit uses annotations in test ...
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Why were annotations introduced in Spring and Hibernate?
I would like to know why were annotations introduced in Spring and Hibernate? For earlier versions of both the frameworks book authors were saying that if we keep configuration in xml files then it ...
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Just getting started in Spring and my preference is XML config over annotations. Correct or not?
After having read through some of the Spring docs my inclination is towards using a XML config file rather than annotations on the classes themselves. My reasoning is that by doing so you avoid tying ...
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What is history and concept of code annotation?
C# and Java has code attribute and code annotation. I don't know about other languages, but I know the code annotation feature is used to expand language itself.
I knew what it is, but I want to know ...
