Description max.kramer 2010-05-28 19:23:14 EDT

The aspectj weaver issues the following error if I try to declare an annotation using a misspelled annotation:


java.lang.IllegalStateException
at org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.WildAnnotationTypePattern.matches(WildAnnotationTypePattern.java:206)
at org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.WildAnnotationTypePattern.matches(WildAnnotationTypePattern.java:68)
at org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.AnyWithAnnotationTypePattern.matchesExactly(TypePattern.java:567)
at org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.TypePattern.matchesStatically(TypePattern.java:133)
at org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.D ... core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

Compile error: IllegalStateException thrown: Cannot use annotationvalues with a wild annotation pattern


I know that this is not a severe error but a proper "... cannot be resolved to a type" might help other users and as I spent some time creating a minimal example to find the error I wanted to file it as a bug.

A minimal example would be:


public aspect MinimalExample {
	declare @type : @AnnotationWithParam("arg") * : @AnnotationWithParam2("gra");
	// the following lines leads to a misleading compiler error
	declare @type : @AnnotationWithParamAndTypo("arg") * : @AnnotationWithParam2("gra");
}

@interface AnnotationWithParam {
	String value();
}

@interface AnnotationWithParam2 {
	String value();
}