Creating an anonymous instance of an annotation does not work

[Thomas Driessen]

Hi again,

I'm still playing around with Java annotations in Xtend and stumbled upon the next issue.

I'm trying to create an anomymous instance of my annotation like this:

annotation MyConfiguration{

String name = 'osgi'

}

class InstanceTest{

    def doSomething(){

        

        var MyConfiguration config = new MyConfiguration(){

             

             override annotationType(){

                 null

             }

             override name(){

                 null

             }

        }

    }

}

where Xtend complains about not being able to resolve MyConfiguration, although I imported it.

In plain Java everything works fine:

public @interface MyConfiguration {

  public String name() default "osgi";

}

public class InstanceTest{

  

  public MyConfiguration doSomething() {

 MyConfiguration config = new MyConfiguration() {

@Override

public Class<? extends Annotation> annotationType() {

return null;

}

@Override

public String name() {

return null;

}

};

  }

}

Kind regards,

Thomas

[Christian Dietrich]

hmmm i dont know what this java feature is good for.
anyway can you please file a ticket at
https://github.com/eclipse/xtext-xtend

[Thomas Driessen]

It can be used for typesafe configuration of services in OSGi... at least I think so ;)