By having a annotation processor, we can update the
org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule file with required entries
during compilation time...
Having said that I will be happy if we have some arrangement like this...
1. We will have below directories in classpath
a. META-INF/groovy/extensionclasses
a. META-INF/groovy/staticextensionclasses
2. Inside these directories, we can have one file for each Extension class
that we have. File content will have module name and version as its content.
These values (if required) can be obtained using properties of declared
annotation.
3. This way, maintaining this file through annotation processor is very easy
and we can avoid manual creation of file by developers
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It has one disadvante... Groovy Runtime should list the files in these
directories of each classpath entry and do the initialization... If you
feel, this can be done without much runtime overhead, then further
discussions can happen in this direction.
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Thanks,
Adithyan K
India
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