Overview

While working on #24136, it became apparent that the use of AnnotationUtils.handleIntrospectionFailure() was removed in b91ccf0 and added back as a private method in 37255af.

Consequently, we lost that exception handling support outside of AnnotationUtils which will inevitably lead to regressions for some use cases.

Potential Candidates

Potential candidates in AnnotationsScanner for local exception handling.

• processElement()
• processClassInheritedAnnotations()
• processClassHierarchy()
• processMethodInheritedAnnotations()
• processMethodHierarchy()

Deliverables

• Start using AnnotationUtils.handleIntrospectionFailure() within the new MergedAnnotation internals.