Hey Richard,

There is a method in JavaSource called resolveType(); This method will return the fully qualified type of the given Class name; however, there is a big issue here at the moment. We cannot resolve wildcards, or classes from the same package that are in the 'package' visibility scope.

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-424

In these two cases, resolveType() will actually return the class name unchanged, which is your signal to take desperate measures, because I don't think that we will be fixing this in time for .Final. In the case of Column.class, I would start by assuming that the class is what you expect, and in the case of other unknown types, at this point - unfortunately - it's going to be up to you to figure out what that type is, and if reasonable assumptions can be made.

Sorry about this, I know it's a big gap, but it's going to take a lot of work to fix this as you might be able to see in the issue. But definitely call resolveType() as a first step, then you'll have to "worry" about handling potential issues where the type information is not available.

We also can't tell if a Class literal is a class, interface, enum, etc...

~Lincoln

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Richard Kennard <richard@kennardconsulting.com> wrote:
Lincoln,

As you may recall, the new 'static Metawidget' scaffolding tries to reuse Inspectors between the runtime/static worlds. To do this, it needs to reify the
annotations from org.jboss.forge.parser.java.Annotations into 'proper' java.lang.annotation.Annotations.

This is mostly working, but I am struggling with reifying two things:

1. If the annotation's value is a Class
2. If the annotation's value is another annotation

The problem is the same in both cases - I am lacking the qualified name of the class/annotation. If they user enters:

    @MyAnnotation( Column.class )

Then I need to know that it's actually a javax.persistence.Column.class. This is a bit beyond me! I have left a couple of TODOs in ForgePropertyStyle and
in ForgePropertyStyleTest. Could you take a look?

Regards,

Richard.
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