JDK-8177370 : Release Note: Annotation toString output not reusable for source input
- Type: Sub-task
- Component: core-libs
- Sub-Component: java.lang:reflect
- Affected Version: 9
- Priority: P4
- Status: Closed
- Resolution: Delivered
- Submitted: 2017-03-22
- Updated: 2017-09-22
- Resolved: 2017-03-27
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| JDK 9 |
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9Resolved  |
Description
The exact toString output of an annotation is deliberately not specified; from java.lang.annotation.Annotation.toString():
Returns a string representation of this annotation. The details of the representation are implementation-dependent [...]
Previously, the toString format of an annotation did not output certain information in a way that would be usable for a source code representation of an annotation, string values were not surrounded by double quote characters, array values were surrounded by brackets ("[]") rather than braces ("{}"), etc.
As a behavioral change, the annotation output has been updated to be faithful to a source code representation of the annotation.