Bug 339913

Summary:

[compiler] Misleading error message for annotations inside a method body

Product:

[Eclipse Project] JDT

Reporter:

Olivier Thomann <Olivier_Thomann>

Component:

Core

Assignee:

Olivier Thomann <Olivier_Thomann>

Status:

VERIFIED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

satyam.kandula

Version:

3.7

Target Milestone:

3.7 M7

Hardware:

OS:

Windows 7

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Proposed fix + updated regression test	none

Description Olivier Thomann

2011-03-14 11:38:21 EDT

public class X {
	public static String foo() {
		@interface C {}
		return "";
	}
}

Compiling this with HEAD leads to:
The member annotation C can only be defined inside a static context.

It has nothing to do with the static context. Only the error message is wrong. This is detected as an invalid local type.

Comment 1 Olivier Thomann

2011-03-14 12:48:56 EDT

Created attachment 191148 [details]
Proposed fix + updated regression test

This is now consistent with the message for member interfaces.

Comment 2 Olivier Thomann

2011-03-14 17:14:31 EDT

Released for 3.7M7

Comment 3 Satyam Kandula

2011-04-25 05:55:33 EDT

Verified for 3.7M7 using build I20110421-1800