JDK-6985205 : access to tree positions and doc comments may be lost across annotation processing rounds
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: javac
  • Affected Version: 7
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2010-09-16
  • Updated: 2014-02-18
  • Resolved: 2011-03-08
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JDK 7
7 b114Fixed
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-6479933 - How to get end positions during annotation processing
Relates :  
JDK-6877202 - Elements.getDocComment() is not getting JavaDocComments
Description
There are reports that doc comments are not reliably available when processing annotations.
Comments
EVALUATION JavaCompiler maintains two booleans, keepComments and genEndPos. The two booleans are to control the use of the DocCommentScanner and the EndPosParser, The values are normally set from options, and so will be recomputed to the same value for each round of processing. BUT, 199 uses a public backdoor to set them, and these settings will not persist across annotation processing rounds when the compiler is invoked by the Compiler API.
16-09-2010