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[jira] [Updated] (LOG4J2-1477) @NonNull support (for @NonNullByDefault or similar)

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1477?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Remko Popma updated LOG4J2-1477:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 2.8)
                   2.8.1

> @NonNull support (for @NonNullByDefault or similar)
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-1477
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1477
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: API
>    Affects Versions: 2.6.2
>         Environment: any
>            Reporter: Bojan Antonović
>             Fix For: 2.8.1
>
>
> Eclipse (and other tools) offer non-null checks by annotation processing.
> One of the possibilities to enable this is to add the annotation @org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNullByDefault in your package-info.java file.
> Example:
> @org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNullByDefault
> package foo;
> A frequent problem is reported when using a logger:
> private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger(Bla.class);
> for which Eclipse says:
> Null type safety (type annotations): The expression of type 'Logger' needs unchecked conversion to conform to '@NonNull Logger' Bla.java	(...)
> This can by bypassed by putting a @SuppressWarnings("null") over the expression, but this has to be done in every class, and may be the *only* line of code with this workaround.
> Problems:
> - There are other annotations for non-null (javax.annotation.Nonnull) and many other frameworks, like the Checker Framework.
> - I don't want to be a judge which one to choose.
> - Deeper support may require a dependency on Java 8.
> - If you want to do it framework wide, this can be a huge task.
> - As some tools are not mature (IMHO), it will need experiments.



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