Hi
The following issue was been bothering me for a while:
When you have an annotation with a value that is an array of classes
[1] and one of those classes can't be loaded with the class loader of
defining class of the element the annotation is defined on you get a
ArrayStoreException (stack trace below). Personally I would expect a
NoClassDefFoundError or something similar that tells me which class
can't be loaded and allows me to fix the issue. Is this the intended
behavior?
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayStoreException:
sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy
at
sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseClassArray(AnnotationParser.java:724)
at
sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseArray(AnnotationParser.java:531)
at
sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseMemberValue(AnnotationParser.java:355)
at
sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation2(AnnotationParser.java:286)
at
sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:120)
at
sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:72)
at java.lang.Class.createAnnotationData(Class.java:3384)
at java.lang.Class.annotationData(Class.java:3373)
at java.lang.Class.getAnnotations(Class.java:3310)
The issue seems to be that AnnotationParser#parseClassValue can return a
TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy and AnnotationParser#parseAnnotationArray
does not check the value before storing it into a typed array.
[1] eg.
public @interface Sample {
Class<?>[] value();
}
I would like to take a moment to lament the fact that you no longer
offer fastdebug builds and no longer include sources for non-API
classes. Things like this were much easier to debug in the good old JDK
6 days. This is double annoying when your marketing honchos are always
touting increased developer productivity.
Cheers
Philippe
