[SLING-3499] Support custom annotations with Sling Models

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Sling Models API 1.0.0, Sling Models Implementation 1.0.2
• Fix Version/s: Sling Models API 1.0.2, Sling Models Implementation 1.0.6
• Component/s: Extensions
• Assignee: Justin Edelson
• Reporter: Konrad Windszus
• Created: 11/Apr/14 13:52
• Updated: 11/Jul/14 08:11
• Resolved: 04/Jun/14 20:00

Description

To support custom annotations the API needs to be extended.
The reasons for custom annotations are listed in http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40sling.apache.org/msg27918.html. Also it is much more comfortable for developers, since they can use code completion in the IDE to see which options are available for each injector-specific annotation, apart from that it is less code to write (instead of multiple annotations on one field/method I would only have to write one annotation with some attributes).