proper support for creating internal classes (within methods) with the intercession API

[monperrus]

possible bug reported on stackoverflow

I've been working on a processor that injects an inner class inside a method, and I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out just how to generate the class and accompanying object initialization without incurring auto-generation of an incorrect fully-qualified name.

For example, I've been processing stuff like:
I've been making a new class:

CtClass internal = getFactory().Core().createClass();

and then inserting it before an element within a method

element.insertBefore(internal);

but when I make an initialization statement:

CtConstructorCall call = getFactory().Core().createConstructorCall();
call.setType(internal);
internal.insertAfter(call);

I get a call that looks like:

Main.internal initializedInternalObject = new Main.internal();

Where Main is the name of the overall class that everything is inside, even though internal is declared only inside a specific method. I've tried using getFactory().Class().create() method for internal classes, but that method only seems to be targeted toward classes nested within classes, as opposed to classes delcared within methods.

[monperrus]

One possible solution is to prefix the internal class name by a digit. Does this work?

[monperrus]

• internal CtClass getQualifiedName.getDeclaration() OK
• internal CtClass getReference.getDeclaration() OK
• internal CtClass getReference().getDeclaration() OK
• constructor to internal CtClass OK