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Syntax check for Annotations with Spring Expression Language
See original GitHub issueAnnotations like e.g. @Cacheable, @EventListener or @PreAuthorize take a String literal containing logic in form of SpEL. In general this is error prone since there is no compile-time check.
It would be nice to be warned earlier that the expression is erroneous. It seems this is a feature of IntelliJ:
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As mentioned, there is a basic check for the syntax of the SpEL expression in place now. It works across Java annotations as well as Spring XML config files. It does not yet take the
@AliasForinformation into account, that is something for future work in this area.Nevertheless, I mark this issue as resolved and will deliver this as part of the upcoming Spring Tools 4.7.1 update.
This would indeed be a super awesome enhancement for the Spring Tools 4. I will definitely put this on the list of things we should take a look at for future releases.