[forge-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (ROASTER-44) Support writing of nested annotation arrays

[George Gastaldi (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ROASTER-44?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13021111#comment-13021111 ] 

George Gastaldi commented on ROASTER-44:
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I am using your changes on FORGE-2138, however, I am having a bad time trying to add an annotation based on a {{Class<? extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation> type}} (like the {{@NamedQueries}} example in the issue description. 
I think we might need the following methods:

{code:java}
   /**
    * Add a named annotation value. When there is no existing annotation or annotation array value for {@code name}, a
    * single unwrapped annotation value will be created (as with {@link #setAnnotationValue(String)}); otherwise an
    * unwrapped annotation value will be promoted to an array and a new element will be added.
    * 
    * @param name
    * @return the nested {@link AnnotationSource}
    */
   AnnotationSource<O> addAnnotationValue(Class<? extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation> type);
{code}

Thoughts? 


> Support writing of nested annotation arrays
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ROASTER-44
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ROASTER-44
>             Project: Roaster
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: API, JDT
>    Affects Versions: 2.9.0.Final
>            Reporter: George Gastaldi
>            Assignee: Matt Benson
>             Fix For: 2.9.1.Final
>
>
> Roaster should allow annotation nesting, like: 
> {code}
> @NamedQueries({
>     @NamedQuery(name="Customer.findAll", query="select C from Customer C"),
>     @NamedQuery(name="Customer.findByName", query="select C from Customer C where C.name = :name"),
>     @NamedQuery(name="Customer.findById", query="select C from Customer C where C.id = :id")
> })
> @Entity
> public class Customer  {...}
> {code}



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