How to shorten class declarations

[sewbacca]

Hey folks,
I have a question regarding small classes: The class annotation won't pick up any fields, when defining them as a table literal in a return statement, which I do often for smaller classes:

local function newObject(name)
    ---@class Object
    return {
        name = name
    }
end

I also often have some metatable, which I set in the constructor, where I also set some fields.

---@class Object
local Object = {}
function Object:__tostring() return self.name end

local function newObject(name)
    ---@class Object
    return setmetatable({
        name = name
    }, Object)
end

However in both variations, the class annotation won't pick up the fields, defined in the table literal, which I believe worked in an earlier version.

Was this feature dropped or is there some new syntax to allow for those class declarations?

I know that there is a workaround, with first assigning the table to a local variable, or declare the fields via annotations, but I don't feel like I should be forced to do that.

Any suggestions would be appretiated.

[carsakiller]

I think the behaviour for defining literal tables changed with #1990, but if anything, you should get a warning, not have the fields be undefined, as far as I am aware.

#1990 has always confused me (it is still open?) with what has changed exactly, so it may be completely unrelated.