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Polish null-safety documentation

Issue: SPR-15756
pull/1527/merge
Sebastien Deleuze 8 years ago
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      src/docs/asciidoc/core/core-null-safety.adoc
  2. 5
      src/docs/asciidoc/kotlin.adoc

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src/docs/asciidoc/core/core-null-safety.adoc

@ -16,18 +16,13 @@ in a generic way, without having to hard-code support for Spring annotations.
[NOTE] [NOTE]
==== ====
It is not necessary nor recommanded to have JSR 305 dependency in user project classpath. It is not necessary with Kotlin 1.1.5+ nor recommanded to have JSR 305 dependency in user
project classpath.
==== ====
They are also used by Kotlin which supports natively They are also used by Kotlin which supports natively
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/null-safety.html[null-safety]. By default, types from https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/null-safety.html[null-safety]. More details are
Java APIs used in Kotlin are recognized as available in <<kotlin#null-safety,Kotlin support documentation>>.
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/java-interop.html#null-safety-and-platform-types[platform types]
for which null-checks are relaxed.
https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/blob/jsr-305/proposals/jsr-305-custom-nullability-qualifiers.md[Kotlin support for JSR 305 annotations]
+ Spring nullability annotations provide null-safety for the whole Spring Framework API to Kotlin developers,
with the advantage of dealing with `null` related issues at compile time rather than bumping into the famous
`NullPointerException` at runtime. More details are available in <<kotlin#null-safety,Kotlin support documentation>>.
[NOTE] [NOTE]
==== ====
@ -38,11 +33,10 @@ null-safe APIs.
The following annotations are provided in the `org.springframework.lang` package: The following annotations are provided in the `org.springframework.lang` package:
* {api-spring-framework}/lang/NonNull.html[`@NonNull`] annotation where specific parameter, * {api-spring-framework}/lang/NonNull.html[`@NonNull`] annotation where specific parameter,
return value, generic type argument, varargs element, array element or field cannot be `null` return value or field cannot be `null` (not needed on parameter and return value
(not needed on parameter and return value where `@NonNullApi` and `@NonNullFields` applies) . where `@NonNullApi` and `@NonNullFields` apply) .
* {api-spring-framework}/lang/Nullable.html[`@Nullable`] annotation where specific * {api-spring-framework}/lang/Nullable.html[`@Nullable`] annotation where specific
parameter, return value, generic type argument, varargs element, array element or field parameter, return value or field can be `null`.
can be `null`.
* {api-spring-framework}/lang/NonNullApi.html[`@NonNullApi`] annotation at package level * {api-spring-framework}/lang/NonNullApi.html[`@NonNullApi`] annotation at package level
declares non-null as the default behavior for parameters and return values. declares non-null as the default behavior for parameters and return values.
* {api-spring-framework}/lang/NonNullFields.html[`@NonNullFields`] annotation at package * {api-spring-framework}/lang/NonNullFields.html[`@NonNullFields`] annotation at package
@ -50,8 +44,6 @@ The following annotations are provided in the `org.springframework.lang` package
[NOTE] [NOTE]
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Generic type arguments, varargs and array elements are out of the scope of `@NonNullApi` Generic type arguments, varargs and array elements nullability are not supported yet,
and `@NonNullFields`, because `@TypeQualifierDefault(ElementType.TYPE_USE)` would apply to see https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-15942[SPR-15942] for up-to-date information.
a lot of other use cases. As a consequence, nullability for such elements need to be specified
explicitly with `@NonNull` and `@Nullable`.
==== ====

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src/docs/asciidoc/kotlin.adoc

@ -111,9 +111,8 @@ the default behavior in an upcoming release of Kotlin.
[NOTE] [NOTE]
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Generic type arguments, varargs and array elements nullability are not yet supported, Generic type arguments, varargs and array elements nullability are not supported yet,
see https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/issues/79[this dicussion] for up-to-date see https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-15942[SPR-15942] for up-to-date information.
informations.
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[[classes-interfaces]] [[classes-interfaces]]

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