When do you use Java’s @Override annotation and why?

Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. What are the best practices for using Java’s @Override annotation and why? It seems like it would be overkill to mark every single overridden method with the @Override annotation. … Read more

Difference between and

I’m learning Spring 3 and I don’t seem to grasp the functionality behind <context:annotation-config> and <context:component-scan>. From what I’ve read they seem to handle different annotations (@Required, @Autowired etc vs @Component, @Repository, @Service etc), but also from what I’ve read they register the same bean post processor classes. To confuse me even more, there is … Read more

What does -> mean in Python function definitions?

I’ve recently noticed something interesting when looking at Python 3.3 grammar specification: funcdef: ‘def’ NAME parameters [‘->’ test] ‘:’ suite The optional ‘arrow’ block was absent in Python 2 and I couldn’t find any information regarding its meaning in Python 3. It turns out this is correct Python and it’s accepted by the interpreter: def … Read more

Which @NotNull Java annotation should I use?

I’m looking to make my code more readable as well as use tooling like IDE code inspection and/or static code analysis (FindBugs and Sonar) to avoid NullPointerExceptions. Many of the tools seem incompatible with each others’ @NotNull/@NonNull/@Nonnull annotation and listing all of them in my code would be terrible to read. Any suggestions of which … Read more

What’s the difference between @Component, @Repository & @Service annotations in Spring?

Can @Component, @Repository and @Service annotations be used interchangeably in Spring or do they provide any particular functionality besides acting as a notation device? In other words, if I have a Service class and I change the annotation from @Service to @Component, will it still behave the same way? Or does the annotation also influence … Read more

Only using @JsonIgnore during serialization, but not deserialization

Exactly how to do this depends on the version of Jackson that you’re using. This changed around version 1.9, before that, you could do this by adding @JsonIgnore to the getter. Which you’ve tried: Add @JsonIgnore on the getter method only Do this, and also add a specific @JsonProperty annotation for your JSON “password” field name to the setter method for the … Read more