JDK-4991798 : need some indications of errors/warnings when running -nocompile
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: apt
  • Affected Version: 5.0,6
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • OS: generic,windows_2000
  • CPU: generic,x86
  • Submitted: 2004-02-10
  • Updated: 2009-09-22
  • Resolved: 2009-09-22
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-6278226 - Compiler errors in source code don't always cause apt programmatic interface to return non zero
Relates :  
JDK-6432333 - APT fails to gracefully handle errors
Relates :  
JDK-6403459 - JavacProcessingEnvironment should know if parser errors occurred
Description
If apt is run with the nocompile option and there are compilation errors during the initial apt run, no diagnostics are printed out.  This is a usability problem since it falsely indicates nothing has (possibly) gone wrong.
Comments
EVALUATION The apt tool and its API have been deprecated as of JDK 7 (6381698). By default, issues with annotation processing will only be fixed in the standardized JSR 269 processing in javac as of JDK 6. Since the standardized annotation processing in javac does print an error in this situation, this bug is being closed as will not fix.
22-09-2009
EVALUATION Should be fixed. ###@###.### 2004-02-09
09-02-2004