[jira] Commented: (FELIX-1941) Make @Requires and any other appropriate annotations inheritable. (Add @Inherited meta-annotation to the annotation definition)

["Allen Hackley (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Allen Hackley commented on FELIX-1941:
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It occurs to me that there may arise a scenario where one does not want to inherit the parent field annotations, and so some functionality would need to be added to optionally disable it from occurring.

> Make @Requires and any other appropriate annotations inheritable. (Add @Inherited meta-annotation to the annotation definition)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-1941
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1941
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: iPOJO
>    Affects Versions: iPOJO-1.4.0
>            Reporter: Allen Hackley
>
> Take the following scenario.
> - Class A and Class B have the same superclass: Class C
> - Class C has one or more fields common to both A and B, to minimize having to write redundant code.
> - Classes A and B are declared to be component types.
> - iPOJO currently will not perform field injection on any of the inherited fields within Class A or Class B, even if Class C is also a component type that explicitly exposes those fields.
> - This results in having to write some combination of xml/annotations/java for each individual inherited field, within each individual subclass of C, which defeats the purpose of avoiding redundant code.
> I have written my own implementation of @Requires that is identical to the original, with the exception of the @Inherited annotation, and this seems to solve the above problem.  It would be nice if it were integrated into the iPOJO core.

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