Use the @Nullable annotation on fields too

Spring 5 (currently in M4) is going to support Kotlin’s nullable types when injecting beans. Under the hood, it will look for any @Nullable annotation on autowired fields. That’s great, except it doesn’t work on Ceylon declarations, because we put @Nullable on $priv$ getters but not on the actual field for code like this:

class MyClass() {
    autowired late IService? myService;
}

In such classes, Spring will use the field because there’s no public getter (only a getMyService$priv()$ method).

It might be interesting to add another @Nullable annotation on the field to leverage that new feature in Spring core.

[gavinking]

@xkr47 You can, but it’s been designed so that that should never be necessary.

[xkr47]

So can you annotate i.e. whether Ceylon class annotations end up getting attached to the class, the constructor or both?