[GROOVY-10855] Meta-annotation retention policy and target

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.0-alpha-1
• Labels: breaking
• Assignee: Eric Milles
• Reporter: Eric Milles
• Created: 24/Nov/22 16:41
• Updated: 23/Aug/23 09:11
• Resolved: 31/Jul/23 17:11

Description

Groovy collector annotations @Canonical, @Immutable, @RecordType and @CompileDynamic have missing or misleading Retention and Target metadata. Note: there may be others...

@Canonical and @CompileDynamic: missing Retention and Target

@Immutable and @RecordType: RetentionPolicy is RUNTIME but should be SOURCE since meta-annotation is not retained.