[GROOVY-4434] Java stub generator doesn't use FQN for annotation values

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.6, 1.8-beta-3
• Component/s: Compiler
• Assignee: Roshan Dawrani
• Reporter: Peter Niederwieser
• Created: 23/Sep/10 17:37
• Updated: 04/Jan/12 19:32
• Resolved: 11/Oct/10 12:46

Description

After upgrading our app from 1.7.4 to 1.7.5, we got several (joint) compile errors for seemingly simple Groovy classes. Looking at the generated stub code, I found that imports for annotations were always missing. After debugging groovyc, I found the following:

AntlrParserPlugin:333: addImport() is called with alias==null, which is correct since no import alias is used
ASTHelper:131: if(aliasName==null) aliasName=name // now alias is non-null
JavaStubGenerator:679: if (imp.getAlias() == null) imports.add(...); // because getAlias() is non-null, import isn't added

Code example:

import foo.Foo // details of Foo don't matter
   
@Foo
class Bar {} 

For GMaven users this means that if just one Groovy class in the whole project contains an annotation, the project cannot be compiled.