Revisit nullability annotations

This commit introduces the following changes.

1) It adds a new Spring @NonNull annotation which allows to apply
@NonNullApi semantic on a specific element, like @Nullable does.
Combined with @Nullable, it allows partial null-safety support when
package granularity is too broad.

2) @Nullable and @NonNull can apply to ElementType.TYPE_USE in order
to be used on generic type arguments (SPR-15942).

3) Annotations does not apply to ElementType.TYPE_PARAMETER anymore
since it is not supported yet (applicability for such use case is
controversial and need to be discussed).

4) @NonNullApi does not apply to ElementType.FIELD anymore since in a
lot of use cases (private, protected) it is not part for the public API
+ its usage should remain opt-in. A dedicated @NonNullFields annotation
has been added in order to set fields default to non-nullable.

5) Updated Javadoc and reference documentation.

Issue: SPR-15756
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Sebastien Deleuze
2017-09-15 13:26:41 +02:00
parent ec2218c967
commit 1bc93e3d0f
364 changed files with 1003 additions and 113 deletions

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@@ -31,3 +31,5 @@ include::core/core-aop.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
include::core/core-aop-api.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
include::core/core-null-safety.adoc[leveloffset=+1]