Enum Value as annotation type value not possible

[red-hood]

I am trying to annotate a field via the annotation factory, and would like to set the value of an annotation element to an enum value, e.g.

annoFactory.annotate(field, BoundNumber.class, "byteOrder", ByteOrder.LittleEndian);

where ByteOrder.LittleEndian is the enum value. Running the annoation processor, I get the error message

"Please, submit a valid value."

In CtAnnotationImpl.java, starting at line 88, the annotation values passed in are converted to CtExpression values, but I can not find any clause that would match en enum value. What is the proper way to convert an enum value as shown above to the according CtExpression instance?

[monperrus]

in method annotate, there is some magic to transform an object into an CtExpression, but not unfortunately not for enum values.

In this case, a workaround is to transform the last element and manually create a CtFieldRead that corresponds to ByteOrder.LittleEndian. It's cumbersome, I agree.

We have to improve convertValueToExpression to handle enum values.

[red-hood]

Thank you, I tried a CtVariableRead, but that did not work for me. It would be good to have an overview, which elements in the Java language actually correspond to which Ct element wrappers, I think.

[red-hood]

Thank you for the quick fix!