Rob Winch opened SPR-17296 and commented

It would be nice if @RequestHeader could be used for a meta-annotation. This would make it easier if a header was being used consistently throughout the entire application. For example, a user might do something like this:

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@RequestHeader(name = "user-id")
public @interface CurrentUserId {
}

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