Ability to use HelidonTest in a meta-annotation

[jvissers]

Environment Details

• Helidon Version: 2.5.2
• Helidon MP
• JDK version: 17.0.3+8-LTS-111
• OS: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

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Problem Description

We love @HelidonTest and we use it heavily.
There are a bunch of @HelidonTest in which we also apply a specific @AddBean annotation.

Example:

@HelidonTest
@AddBean(LiquibaseProducer.class)
class MyGreatTest {
   ....
}

We would like you to consider providing support for us being able to declare a meta-annotation that captures this in a single place.

Something like this:

@Inherited
@HelidonTest
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@AddBean(LiquibaseProducer.class)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface DECSHelidonTest {}

Which then can be used like so:

@DECSHelidonTest
class MyGreatTest {
   ....
}

[jbescos]

I am checking this.

You will still need to include @HelidonTest here because it contains @ExtendWith(HelidonJunitExtension.class).

@HelidonTest
@DECSHelidonTest
class MyGreatTest {
   ....
}

Or otherwise you will have to include @ExtendWith(HelidonJunitExtension.class) in DECSHelidonTest:

@ExtendWith(HelidonJunitExtension.class)
@Inherited
@HelidonTest
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@AddBean(LiquibaseProducer.class)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface DECSHelidonTest {}

This is because we need to execute HelidonJunitExtension in order to parse annotations. The first option looks more friendly in my opinion, but you can choose any.

[jbescos]

Merged in #4918