[jira] [Assigned] (FLEX-33332) Make metadata annotations first class AS3 citizens

["Michael Schmalle (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33332?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Michael Schmalle reassigned FLEX-33332:
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    Assignee: Michael Schmalle
    
> Make metadata annotations first class AS3 citizens
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLEX-33332
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33332
>             Project: Apache Flex
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Compiler API
>    Affects Versions: Apache Flex 4.9.0
>            Reporter: Roland Zwaga
>            Assignee: Michael Schmalle
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Currently metadata annotations are only checked by certain IDE's using some sort of extra metadata.
> Making metadata first class AS3 citizens would allow the compiler to check and verify annotations.
> So, for each metadata tag there would need to exist a corresponding AS3 class that describes this tag,
> In practice, an annotation like this:
> [Bindable(event="dataChanged")]
> public var data:String;
> There would need to exist a class like this:
> [MetadataAnnotation]
> public class Bindable {
>   [Optional]
>   public var event:String;
> }
> Or something like that...
> The MetadataAnnotation metadata would be the entry point for the compiler. The actual class would not necessarily need to be compiled in the eventual target. (Or maybe it should, perhaps for JS cross-compilation this could actually enable annotation support...)
> Thoughts? Suggestions?

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