Bump! Any ideas on this? Or perhaps this is not the right forum for this
question?
On Thursday, 13 November 2014 18:37:03 UTC+5:30, Kiran Rao wrote:
>
> I am developing an annotation processor using Android Studio. My project
> has three modules:
>
> *anno-api*- This contains that API - i.e, just defines the annotations
> and some constants
> *anno-processor* - This has a compile dependency on anno-api and it
> contains the class extending AbstractProcessor
> *sample* - This demonstrates how to use the annotations.
>
> The setup is working just fine. Now, I want to do better validation in my
> Annotation Processor. For this, both anno-api and anno-processor need to
> have access to the Android API.
> For example, consider this annotation. It has a method of type Class but I
> want to restrict this to just sub-classes of Activity.
>
> @Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE)
> @Target(ElementType.TYPE)
> public @interface AwesomeActivity {
> Class<? extends android.app.Activity> base();
> }
>
> How do I go about doing this? *How do I tell anno-api and anno-processor
> to depend on Android classes?*
>
> Here are the things I tried:
>
> 1) I tried making both anno-api and anno-processor as Android Library
> projects.
> 2) I tried adding android.jar in the lib/ folder of the anno-api project
> and adding a dependency to the JAR file in build.gradle.
>
> In both cases the I end up with compile errors in my Annotation Processor.
> Basically it refuses to recognize the javax.annotation.* and other such
> classes. I suspect that at this point, only the classes present in
> android.jar are recognized.
>
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