Ability to Add Arbitrary Metadata to Services via Annotation

[glassfishrobot]

I'd like to add additional metadata to a service via annotation. The current implementation of @Metadata requires that an annotation be a qualifier or scope annotation in order to add metadata which precludes me from being able to directly add metadata to a service and retrieve it later without having to qualify/scope it. For example, I would like to be able to do this:

//notice there is no qualifier or scope annotation @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
public @interface MyServiceMetadata {

    @Metadata("myMetadata")
    String value();

}

@MyServiceMetadata("something")
@Service
public class MyService {
}

With this I will be able to get MyService's active descriptor and get "myMetadata" value.

Affected Versions

[2.2.0]

[glassfishrobot]

• Issue Imported From: https://github.com/javaee/hk2/issues/247
• Original Issue Raised By:@glassfishrobot
• Original Issue Assigned To: @jwells131313

[glassfishrobot]

@glassfishrobot Commented Reported by @saden1

[glassfishrobot]

@glassfishrobot Commented This issue was imported from java.net JIRA HK2-203