[GROOVY-3481] Groovy Support for annotations on local variable declarations

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: ast builder
• Environment: All
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Hamlet D'Arcy
• Created: 20/Apr/09 20:23
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 19:13
• Resolved: 21/Dec/09 05:46

Description

Groovy should support annotations on local variable declarations. It is syntactically legal to annotate a local variable, but the AST produced does not carry that annotation.

My use case with the AST builder. Either we'd like to annotate a local variable, like this:

@AstSource(CompilePhase.CONVERSION)
def source = { println "compiled on: ${new Date()}" }

Or annotate a property within a closure (which is a DeclarationExpression), like this:

def result = new AstBuilder().build {
           phase = CompilePhase.CONVERSION
           @AstSource
           source = { println "compiled on: ${new Date()}" }
 }

A getAnnotations() method should probably be added to DeclarationExpression to support this.

Issue Links

• is related to: GROOVY-3952 CLONE -Groovy Support for annotations on local variable declarations: Part II - Allow Local Transforms to process such annotations