[GROOVY-9185] groovyc doesn't keep RetentionPolicy in generated bytecode

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.5.7
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.19, 2.5.10, 4.0.0-alpha-1, 3.0.2
• Component/s: Compiler
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: zhb
• Created: 03/Jul/19 09:16
• Updated: 06/Mar/20 23:17
• Resolved: 19/Feb/20 05:16

Description

 

$ groovyc -v
Groovy compiler version 2.5.7
Copyright 2003-2019 The Apache Software Foundation. http://groovy-lang.org/
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$ cat MyAnnotation.groovy
import java.lang.annotation.Retention
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE)
@interface MyAnnotation {}
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$ groovyc MyAnnotation.groovy && javap -private -v MyAnnotation
Classfile /Users/zhb/Projects/tmp/groovy-anno/MyAnnotation.class
Last modified 3 Jul 2019; size 146 bytes
MD5 checksum 485f011b0c78ff7b08bd0e03b1b429cd
Compiled from "MyAnnotation.groovy"
public interface MyAnnotation extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation
minor version: 0
major version: 51
flags: (0x2601) ACC_PUBLIC, ACC_INTERFACE, ACC_ABSTRACT, ACC_ANNOTATION
this_class: #2 // MyAnnotation
super_class: #4 // java/lang/Object
interfaces: 1, fields: 0, methods: 0, attributes: 1
Constant pool:
#1 = Utf8 MyAnnotation
#2 = Class #1 // MyAnnotation
#3 = Utf8 java/lang/Object
#4 = Class #3 // java/lang/Object
#5 = Utf8 java/lang/annotation/Annotation
#6 = Class #5 // java/lang/annotation/Annotation
#7 = Utf8 MyAnnotation.groovy
#8 = Utf8 SourceFile
{
}
SourceFile: "MyAnnotation.groovy"

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$ cat MyJavaAnnotation.java
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE)
@interface MyJavaAnnotation {}
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$ javac MyJavaAnnotation.java && javap -private -v MyJavaAnnotation
Classfile /Users/zhb/Projects/tmp/groovy-anno/MyJavaAnnotation.class
Last modified 3 Jul 2019; size 292 bytes
MD5 checksum c8ea8afe8f9fe148925db48177207f01
Compiled from "MyJavaAnnotation.java"
interface MyJavaAnnotation extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation
minor version: 0
major version: 55
flags: (0x2600) ACC_INTERFACE, ACC_ABSTRACT, ACC_ANNOTATION
this_class: #1 // MyJavaAnnotation
super_class: #2 // java/lang/Object
interfaces: 1, fields: 0, methods: 0, attributes: 2
Constant pool:
#1 = Class #11 // MyJavaAnnotation
#2 = Class #12 // java/lang/Object
#3 = Class #13 // java/lang/annotation/Annotation
#4 = Utf8 SourceFile
#5 = Utf8 MyJavaAnnotation.java
#6 = Utf8 RuntimeVisibleAnnotations
#7 = Utf8 Ljava/lang/annotation/Retention;
#8 = Utf8 value
#9 = Utf8 Ljava/lang/annotation/RetentionPolicy;
#10 = Utf8 SOURCE
#11 = Utf8 MyJavaAnnotation
#12 = Utf8 java/lang/Object
#13 = Utf8 java/lang/annotation/Annotation
{
}
SourceFile: "MyJavaAnnotation.java"
RuntimeVisibleAnnotations:
0: #7(#8=e#9.#10)
java.lang.annotation.Retention(
value=Ljava/lang/annotation/RetentionPolicy;.SOURCE
)