[JSR308] Constructor Annotation Inference
Niko Matsakis
niko at alum.mit.edu
Fri Jan 16 09:10:13 EST 2009
>> Before answering your email, I would like to mention a convention
>> used within AnnotatedTypeFactory. Many methods in the class follow
>> a naming convention: .fromFOO methods (e.g. fromTree,
>> fromExpression) return types with only the annotations that the user
>> explicitly inserted; .getAnnotatedType* methods (e.g.
>> getAnnotatedType, getAnnotatedTypeFromTypeTree) return types with
>> the annotations enforced in such trees whether explicitly inserted
>> by the user or implicitly inserted by the checker.
>
> Good to know. Perhaps I am using the wrong method. If I can't find a
> better one, however, I will simply override fromExpression(). I have
> to think about it a bit.
Ok, now I understand this part of the design better! Once I switched
to using getAnnotatedType() instead of fromExpression(), I realized I
could easily add my inferred annotations in annotateImplicit(), and
all is well (for the moment, at least ;). Thanks again for the help!
Niko
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