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Review the use and responsabilities of `BindingReflectiveHintsRegistrar`
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Description
This class currently does a lot, providing the heavy lifting for registering hints for getters/setters, fields, constructors, properties and record components. On top of that, it registers hints specific to Kotlin and a best effort for Jackson annotations.
This issue is for tracking a potential refactoring effort in 6.2, in order to consider possible improvements to the class and the surrounding API. For example, this could be:
- split the class into more focused sub-components
- open sub-components for extension by the user
- extend the API, provide more utilities
- ...
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- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing BindingReflectiveHintsRegistrar and the surrounding API to understand its current responsibilities, including getter/setter, field, constructor, property, record-component, Kotlin, and Jackson hint registration. The issue describes a potential refactoring rather than a defined change, so the scope and completion criteria would need to be established before implementation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100