[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: [APT] Messages showing up in Error Log rath

[morling.eclipsebugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gunnar Morling)]

Walter Harley wrote:

> Specify the element that you're reporting the message against.  If you take 
> a look at the API, you'll notice that there's a varargs parameter at the end 
> of that printMessage() method - you need to give it an Element so it knows 
> what to associate the message with.

Walter,

thanks for your hint. Basically it is working now (an error appears in the 
problems view, and the concerned element is underlined red in the Java 
editor), as I'm using the following overloaded version of the 
printMessage() method:

printMessage(Diagnostic.Kind kind, CharSequence msg, Element e, 
AnnotationMirror a, AnnotationValue v)

But as opposed to APTDemo.jar (containing a Java 5 processor, available 
from Eclipse JDT-APT home) not the annotation's attribute value is 
underlined in the editor, but rather the attribute name (for instance 
"what" when referring to the DemoAnnotation from said JAR). 

Is this intended or is there any way to get the attribute value underlined 
instead?

Thanks, Gunnar