why we not support jdk 8?

[citywalki]

Not all production projects are new versions, most of us are still at jdk8.
please think about this

[aileftech]

You are right. I will make it so that the next release supports JDK >= 8. I don't wanna mess this up though, so I need to check carefully what needs to change.

For sure the java.version = 17 in the pom.xml file. I guess I need to use JDK 8 to compile the project as well otherwise it will not run when installed with Maven?

Thanks for reporting this!

[aileftech]

After some testing I realized I used more Java > 8 features than I expected. I still plan to do this but it will require a bit more time than expected.

[bobgarner]

I was able to bump my java version to 17 but now I am getting a runtime exception at startup:

Failed to introspect Class [tech.ailef.snapadmin.external.controller.SnapAdminController] from ClassLoader [jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader@531d72ca]

There is a bunch of org.springframework.beans... in the stack trace, do you have a minimum version for Spring Boot?

[aileftech]

I would need to test it, but the lowest I ever tried is 3.1.3. What version are you using?

[bobgarner]

Ah ok, I am at 2.5.5. That is way to low, I've been meaning to bring it up to date so I will do that.

[DaurenF]

HI! Doesn't it support old version of hibernate (5.x.x) versions?
I get this error after adding it to gradle :

// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/tech.ailef/snap-admin
implementation 'tech.ailef:snap-admin:0.2.0'

import javax.persistence.Entity;
error: cannot find symbol

[aileftech]

Hi, I have not tested with older Hibernate versions but what I can grasp from the error is that it might be related to the javax.persistence to jakarta.persistence renamed package. At the moment I don't have a solution for this though, I guess this would require shipping two different versions of the library?

I'd really like to avoid this so If somebody with more experience is aware of a different method to ship just one version that supports both (assuming it's possible) it'd be awesome.

[ochompsky]

Not all production projects are new versions, most of us are still at jdk8. please think about this

who is 'most'? why ask the developer to spend his time making this amazing library work because you are too lazy to upgrade?