Description Chris West (Faux) 2010-07-14 14:51:12 EDT

Build Identifier: N20100703-2000

Calling setLiteralValue() with a String containing a single-quote will result in the quote being escaped in the rewritten output.

i.e. sl.setLiteralValue(sl.getLiteralValue() + " loves horses' manes") results in ...horses\' manes", which is correct, but ugly.

Easy enough to work around by copy-pastaing the method and removing the offending case, as patch.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Execute:
import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.AST;
import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ASTParser;
import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.StringLiteral;

class JDTScratch {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    StringLiteral sl = ast().newStringLiteral();

    sl.setEscapedValue("\"'\"");
    System.out.println(sl.getEscapedValue()); // "'"

    sl.setLiteralValue("'");
    System.out.println(sl.getEscapedValue()); // "\'"
  }

  static AST ast() {
    final ASTParser parser = ASTParser.newParser(AST.JLS3);
    parser.setSource(new char[0]);
    return parser.createAST(null).getAST();
  }
}


Observe output, as comments.