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Support meta-annotation attribute overrides in ASM-based annotation processing [SPR-11574] #16198

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spring-projects-issues opened this issue Mar 18, 2014 · 2 comments
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spring-projects-issues commented Mar 18, 2014

Sam Brannen opened SPR-11574 and commented

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Recent releases of the Spring Framework have introduced support for meta-annotation attribute overrides in custom composed annotations. This support works as expected with reflection-based annotation processing; however, Spring's ASM-based support for annotation processing completely ignores meta-annotation attribute overrides.


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By comparing the implementations of getAnnotationAttributes(String, boolean) in StandardAnnotationMetadata (reflection) and AnnotationMetadataReadingVisitor (ASM), we see that StandardAnnotationMetadata delegates to AnnotatedElementUtils which properly supports meta-annotation attribute overrides. Whereas, AnnotationMetadataReadingVisitor performs a simple look-up in a local (linked) hash map with complete disregard for attribute overrides.


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  1. Refactor AnnotationMetadataReadingVisitor so that Spring's ASM-based annotation processing supports meta-annotation attribute overrides on par with the support already provided for reflection-based processing in AnnotatedElementUtils.
    • See TODO comments in ConfigurationClassPostProcessorTests.

Affects: 4.0 GA

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spring-projects-issues commented Mar 18, 2014

Sam Brannen commented

This issue depends on #16181.

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Sam Brannen commented

Fixed as described in the comments for GitHub commit 99cd2f6:

Support meta-annotation overrides in ASM processing

Prior to this commit, Spring supported meta-annotation attribute
overrides in custom composed annotations with reflection-based
annotation processing but not with ASM-based annotation processing.

This commit ensures that meta-annotation attribute overrides are
supported in AnnotationMetadataReadingVisitor.getAnnotationAttributes().

Specifically, the above commit introduced AnnotationReadingVisitorUtils.getMergedAnnotationAttributes() which is responsible for merging annotation attributes within the annotation hierarchy.

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