[krazo-dev] Annotation inheritance

[Gregor Tudan <gregor@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I’m working on the refactoring of the processing of the View-Annotations and I’m not quiet sure on some specifics of the specs.

Consider these controllers (I omitted some annotations - assume that all method are mapped to GET and some URLs):

class SimpleController {
    public String view() {
        return "helloWorld.html";
    }

    @View("helloWorld.html")
    public void annotatedView() {
    }

    public String brokenView() {
        return null;
    }

    public void invalidView() {
    }

}

@View("helloDuke.html")
static class AnnotatedController extends SimpleController {

}

Is the method „brokenView“ in Simple-Controller valid? 

The specs states that controller methods might return null to fall back to a view annotation. Is throwing an exception if no view annotation exists the right thing to do?

Does this still apply if the method is inherited in the AnnotatedController? 

Thanks,

- Gregor