[QPID-8143] [Broker-J] Properly validate @ManagedAttributeValueTypes, and allow for factory methods

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: qpid-java-broker-7.1.0
• Component/s: Broker-J
• Assignee: Keith Wall
• Reporter: Robert Godfrey
• Created: 29/Mar/18 10:44
• Updated: 05/Jan/19 20:01
• Resolved: 07/Dec/18 10:11

Description

Currently types annotated with the @ManagedAttributeValueType annotation are not correctly validated (the validator is not being run).

Such types should be interfaces with only accessor methods unless they are marked as "abstract" which means they cannot be instantiated from input. For abstract types, allow the use of classes as well as interfaces. For non-abstract types allow the use of a factory method rather than forcing the use of proxy classes.