[CAMEL-990] TypeConverter support with @Converter meta-annotation and not only @Converter

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: camel-core
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Hadrian Zbarcea
• Reporter: Seb Auvray
• Created: 16/Oct/08 11:35
• Updated: 16/Feb/09 05:51
• Resolved: 23/Oct/08 06:06

Description

Today TypeConverter detection is based on org.apache.camel.@Converter annotation.
Allow user to override this by using meta-annotation. This can be useful to hide camel dependencies, when extending the framework.

ie, this can be done:

package some.package.of.mine;
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(

{ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD }

)
@org.apache.camel.Converter
public @interface OwnConverterAnnotation {
}

import some.package.of.mine.OwnConverterAnnotation;

@OwnConverterAnnotation
public class FileToXXXConverter {

@OwnConverterAnnotation
public static XXX toWorkflowEntry(File file) throws IOException

{ return new XXX(); }

}