ANNOTATION-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING 'PREDICTABLE' IDS FOR VISUAL COMPONENTS IN A WEB-APPLICATION

摘要

A method for generating identifiers for software components is provided. A processing device scans source code for an annotation associated with generating an identifier for an object. The processing device generates, using the annotation, an identifier value for the object. When the object does not have a previously assigned value, the processing device assigns the identifier value to the object. When the object has a previously assigned value, the processing device concatenates the identifier value to the previously assigned value of the object and assigns the concatenated identifier value to the object. The processing device then recursively descends into the sub-object's hierarchy by repeating the steps of scanning, generating, and assigning or concatenating and assigning described above.