AnnotationSessionFactoryBean packagesToScan does not scan for annotations in package's package-info.java file [SPR-7748]

[spring-projects-issues]

Gabriele Del Prete opened SPR-7748 and commented

If I use the packagesToScan property of AnnotationSessionFactoryBean, classes are scanned for annotations, but the package itself is not scanned (i.e. package-info.java file is not considered).

I guess it would be better to include the package-info.java file too as the "packagesToScan" name really makes one think that it will scan the packages as a whole.

Note also the contrast with the "annotatedPackages" and "annotatedClasses" name, where it's clear that one will only scan the package annotations and the other only the package classes annotation.

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Affects: 3.0.4

Issue Links:

• In AnnotationSessionFactoryBean, be able to specify annotatedPackages and packagesToScan in one property [SPR-10288] #14922 In AnnotationSessionFactoryBean, be able to specify annotatedPackages and packagesToScan in one property

Referenced from: commits 5334ac5

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Juergen Hoeller commented

As of 3.2.2, "packagesToScan" detects package-info classes as well and passes them to Hibernate's addPackage method. Sorry for not getting back to this issue earlier; it got lost in the waiting-for-triage flood :-(

Juergen