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@Nullable field annotations when backporting to Eclipse 3.8 [message #1266294]

Fri, 07 March 2014 03:34

Eclipse User

Hi,

I want to backport the Eclipse OCL development branch to Eclipse 3.8. A
small problem I face is that the jdt @Nullable annotations are not (yet)
allowed on fields there.

To fix that I added the kepler/luna version of
org.eclipse.jdt.annotation to the target platform... Is this a good
solution? Better ones? I don't want to comment out gazillions of
annotations.

Thanks,
Felix

Re: @Nullable field annotations when backporting to Eclipse 3.8 [message #1266786 is a reply to message #1266294]

Fri, 07 March 2014 19:11

Eclipse User

What exactly is the goal of this backport? To be runtime-compatible with Eclipse 3.8?
For that matter null annotations don't make any difference, they are needed only at compile time.
So, if you add org.eclipse.jdt.annotation_1.1.0 to the target platform *and* if you use a kepler compiler then you should be safe. If you use the juno compiler against the newer annotations, nothing will break either, you will only get different nullness warnings / errors.

HTH,
Stephan

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