Bug 495857

Summary: [type wizards] New Annotation dialog should allow generating @Inherited
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Andreas Sewe <sewe>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 4.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://git.eclipse.org/r/76461
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Description Andreas Sewe CLA 2016-06-10 04:58:57 EDT
Bug 339292 is a really nice enhancement of the "New Annotation" dialog (looking forward to it in Neon :-), but it doesn't offer adding java.lang.annotation.Inherited [1]. I think it should.

Also, if no @Target is selected which is inheritable as per [1], a warning should be displayed.

[1] <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/annotation/Inherited.html>
Comment 1 Eclipse Genie CLA 2016-07-01 20:04:11 EDT
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/76461