[TAPESTRY-1446] @Symbol annotation for injecting a specific symbol

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.5
• Component/s: tapestry-ioc
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Howard Lewis Ship
• Created: 07/May/07 17:55
• Updated: 16/May/07 00:40
• Resolved: 16/May/07 00:40

Description

It would be nice to have an @Symbol anntotation that is similar to @Value except that the value annotation would be a symbol name (rather than an expansion). This would support cases where a constant is defined, i.e.:

@Inject @Symbol(InternalConstants.TAPESTRY_ALIAS_MODE_SYMBOL)

vs.

@Inject @Value("${tapestry.alias-mode}")

The latter is more prone to typos that can only be detected at runtime.