Description Pascal Filion 2011-04-12 14:31:51 EDT

If the ITypeBinding is for a generic type, i.e. java.util.Collection<E> than ITypeBinding.getQualifiedName() returns the fully qualified class name with the generic type.

1. Create a new JPA project with EclipseLink as the platform.
2. Create a persistence.xml
3. Create a new JPA entity and add it to the persistence.xml
4. Create an interface:
   import org.eclipse.persistence.config.DescriptorCustomizer;
   public interface MyInterface<T> extends DescriptorCustomizer {
   }
5. Create a new class that implements the interface:
   import org.eclipse.persistence.descriptors.ClassDescriptor;
   public class MyClass implements MyInterface<Object> {
      public void customize(ClassDescriptor descriptor) throws Exception {
      }
   }
6. Set the Customer Class on the entity to be the newly created class.

During validation, ASTTool.findTypeInHierarchy() is called and ITypeBinding.getQualifiedName() will return MyInterface<java.lang.Object> instead of MyInterface.