[tigerstripe-dev] So.... another issue with Annotations.

["Steve Jerman (stjerman)" <stjerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have been defining quite a few annotations. However, some are not working :)

 

The situation is this..

 

Define an annotation thus:

 

   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.tigerstripe.annotation.core.annotationType">
      <definition
            description="Persistence Hints"
            eclass="TransientHint"
            epackage-uri="http://com.cisco.tigerstripe.annotation.chameleon.persistence"
            id="com.cisco.tigerstripe.annotation.chameleon.persistence.inheritance"
            name="Transient">
         <target
               type="org.eclipse.tigerstripe.workbench.model.deprecated_.IField"
               unique="true">
         </target>
         <target
               type="org.eclipse.tigerstripe.workbench.model.deprecated_.IManagedEntityArtifact"
               unique="true">
         </target>
      </definition>
   </extension>

 

The annotations all pop up in the 'create' box correctly (against the right objects), but nothing happens when I try to create one...

 

Looking at org.eclipse.tigerstripe.annotation.internal.core.ProviderManager, it seems to be doing string comparisons on the target type against the Provider type:

 

 <extension
   point="org.eclipse.tigerstripe.annotation.core.annotationProvider">
  <provider
   id="org.eclipse.tigerstripe.annotation.tsmodel.provider"
   class="org.eclipse.tigerstripe.annotation.tsmodel.TSModelAnnotationProvider"
   targetDescription="Model Component"
   type="org.eclipse.tigerstripe.workbench.model.deprecated_.IModelComponent">
    <delegate type="org.eclipse.jdt.core.IJavaElement"/>
  </provider>
 </extension>

 

I may be long at this wrongly, but that would be my best guess at whats going wrong - that the classes should be loaded and a check to see if its a subclass made. Any thoughts?

 

Steve