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Re: [sisu-dev] @Qualifier not being indexed
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On 11 Jan 2013, at 20:25, Jonathan Doklovic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an annotation that's tagged with @Qualifier and a class that uses my annotation.
> I expected to see a new file in META-INF/sisu for this class, but it doesn't get generated.
> the @Named index is being generated properly just not my custom annotation.
>
> Am I missing something?
The current indexer will pick up other @Qualifiers, but at the moment the qualified class is only added to the @Named index, as from Sisu's perspective it treats any component with a @Qualifier as being implicitly @Named.
Likewise the container only queries the 'META-INF/sisu/javax.inject.Named' file when performing an indexed scan, because 1) it lists all known qualified components and 2) it is much faster to call getResource on a fixed path than hunt for all resources under the 'META-INF/sisu/' path (plus not all classloaders expose enough information about the underlying resource URLs to perform such a scan). Note this index is only used to list the qualified components needing runtime scanning to avoid having to brute-force scan the classpath, the binding and query features both work off the runtime annotations found when loading the component class.
Originally the idea was to have a file per-@Qualifier, but the benefit of every qualified component being implicitly @Named and therefore 'META-INF/sisu/javax.inject.Named' list all know qualified components meant this was implemented first - and since the container only needs this file the indexer hasn't yet been extended to write out the other @Qualifier files (although it does have the necessary information to do this). There was a discussion about choosing a different name for this 'any qualified component list', but at the time we already had jars using this format and it also lets us add other @Qualifier files in the future (which would then be subsets of the main javax.inject.Named index).
So basically you can index components with other @Qualifiers, and query them using those @Qualifiers, but at the moment they only get listed in the canonical 'META-INF/sisu/javax.inject.Named' file.
HTH
> - Jonathan
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