Re: jdeps and annotations parameters

[Alex Buckley]

On 9/5/2015 5:05 PM, Jeff Hain wrote:
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) @Target(ElementType.TYPE_USE)
public @interface A_TYPE_USE_R_COMPLEX {
     Class<? extends Number>[] nbrClsArr() default {Byte.class};
     String tooStrong();
     RoundingMode rounding();
}
Also found a possible javac problem (unless that's perfectly normal :):
When you put the following code:

@A_TYPE_USE_R_COMPLEX(nbrClsArr={Long.class},tooStrong="",rounding=RoundingMode.UNNECESSARY)
Integer foo = 1;

in a constructor or regular method, Long, RoundingMode and A_TYPE_USE_R_COMPLEX
types make it into the class file (and jdeps properly detects them),
but when you put it in an init block (static or not), they don't appear
in the class file (only Integer does).

Either this is a huge bug in javac or you're not looking in the right 
place. The code in an instance initializer compiles into the same <init> 
method as the code in a constructor, so I would expect the <init> method 
to have a RuntimeVisibleTypeAnnotations attribute whether the local 
variable (whose type is annotated) exists in {...} or a ctor.

Alex