[TAP5-1014] Message about missing or wrong retention policy of a marker annotation is misleading

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.1.0.5
• Fix Version/s: 5.2.0
• Component/s: tapestry-ioc
• Assignee: Igor Drobiazko
• Reporter: Igor Drobiazko
• Created: 12/Feb/10 09:19
• Updated: 05/Mar/10 22:15
• Resolved: 05/Mar/10 22:15

Description

Using another renetion policy policy than RUNTIME for a marker annotation leads to the following exception

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Marker annotation class org.example.Blue is not valid because it is not visible at runtime. Add a @RetentionPolicy(RUNTIME) to the class.
at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.util.InternalUtils.validateMarkerAnnotation(InternalUtils.java:698)
at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.util.InternalUtils.validateMarkerAnnotations(InternalUtils.java:703)
at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.ServiceBinderImpl.withMarker(ServiceBinderImpl.java:292)

A proper mesage is:

Add a @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) to the class.