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Michael Schmalle commented on FLEX-33332:
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I think this is a good idea and worthy of inclusion to Falcon sooner than later.
I'm going to make an experimental project in my whiteboard with tests. If it
gets accepted we can merge it into the Falcon trunk.
> Make metadata annotations first class AS3 citizens
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>
> Key: FLEX-33332
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33332
> Project: Apache Flex
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Compiler API
> Affects Versions: Apache Flex 4.9.0
> Reporter: Roland Zwaga
> Assignee: Michael Schmalle
> Priority: Minor
>
> Currently metadata annotations are only checked by certain IDE's using some
> sort of extra metadata.
> Making metadata first class AS3 citizens would allow the compiler to check
> and verify annotations.
> So, for each metadata tag there would need to exist a corresponding AS3 class
> that describes this tag,
> In practice, an annotation like this:
> [Bindable(event="dataChanged")]
> public var data:String;
> There would need to exist a class like this:
> [MetadataAnnotation]
> public class Bindable {
> [Optional]
> public var event:String;
> }
> Or something like that...
> The MetadataAnnotation metadata would be the entry point for the compiler.
> The actual class would not necessarily need to be compiled in the eventual
> target. (Or maybe it should, perhaps for JS cross-compilation this could
> actually enable annotation support...)
> Thoughts? Suggestions?
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