Jandex 3.5.0

Today, we announce the release of Jandex 3.5.0. This release contains multiple optizations, bug fixes and and small new features.

Class MethodSignatureKey was added, together with MethodInfo.signatureKey(). A method signature key implements equals() and hashCode() according to the method signature (that is, method name, parameter types, return type). This allows skipping methods during processing of an inheritance hierarchy if another method with the same signature has already been processed. The concept has already existed in Quarkus, but the implementation added in Jandex is slightly more optimized.

Method MethodParameterInfo.nameOrDefault() was added. As opposed to MethodParameterInfo.name(), this method never returns null; instead, when the parameter name is not known, it returns argN, where N is a zero-based parameter index.

Methods copyModifiers() and constOfEnum() were added to Jandex2Gizmo, simplifying the Gizmo 2 integration in certain cases.

Index reproducibility was fixed in case of type annotations. Jandex has been trying to produce reproducible output since version 3.1.0, but since that version, several bugs have been found. This time, a bug was found in case type annotations were used. This bug was fixed, leading to reproducible output in even more cases. Thanks Robert Stupp for the issue report, reproducer and an attempt to fix!

Finally, several optimizations were performed especially to reduce allocations. Thanks Guillaume Smet for issues and fixes!

If you experience any troubles, or if you have any ideas for Jandex improvements, please file an issue.