As pointed out by recent core-libs-dev traffic ([1] [2]), the toString
output for annotation objects cannot be directly reused as source input
if the annotation values are any of:
* Class values of array classes (uses JVM name)
* Arrays (output uses brackets ("[]") rather than braces {"{}")
In addition, there are problems with other situations including:
* Strings don't have surrounding " characters.
* Chars don't have surrounding ' charcters.
* Long values outside of the int range don't have a "L" suffix.
Please review the webrev for the change addressing these shortcomings:
JDK-8162817: Annotation toString output not reusable for source input
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8162817.1/
This change should cover 99 44/100 % of the annotation values that
appear in practice; limited efforts were taken quoting characters in
strings, etc.
The basic approach is to introduce a family of overloaded toSourceString
methods to wrap/filter different kinds of values coupled with methods to
convert the various primitive arrays to Stream<String> for final
processing by a shared method to surround an array by "{" and "}" and
add comma separators as needed.
Thanks,
-Joe
[1]
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-July/042637.html
[2]
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-July/042645.html
