Relax the AnnotationCreator string syntax to accept strings in single quotes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBMDR-50 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBMDR-50 Project: JBoss MetaData Repository Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Annotations Affects Versions: JBossMDR.2.0.0.GA Reporter: Scott M Stark A single line expression like the following String annotationExpr = "@org.jboss.managed.api.annotation.ManagementObject(name='testMetaDataRepositoryOverride',componentType=(a)org.jboss.managed.api.annotation.ManagementComponent(type='MCBean', subtype='MetaDataTest'))"; ManagementObject override = (ManagementObject) AnnotationCreator.createAnnotation(annotationExpr, ManagementObject.class); fails with the following because single quoted strings are not accepted. As far as I know there are no character expression in the grammar, so supporting single quoted strings simplifies embedding the expression in code since you don't have to escape the double quotes. org.jboss.annotation.factory.ast.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 1, column 59. Encountered: "e" (101), after : "\'t" at org.jboss.annotation.factory.ast.AnnotationParserTokenManager.getNextToken(AnnotationParserTokenManager.java:497) at org.jboss.annotation.factory.ast.AnnotationParser.jj_ntk(AnnotationParser.java:632) at org.jboss.annotation.factory.ast.AnnotationParser.MemberValue(AnnotationParser.java:242) at org.jboss.annotation.factory.ast.AnnotationParser.MemberValuePair(AnnotationParser.java:218) at org.jboss.annotation.factory.ast.AnnotationParser.MemberValuePairs(AnnotationParser.java:175) at org.jboss.annotation.factory.ast.AnnotationParser.Annotation(AnnotationParser.java:93) at org.jboss.annotation.factory.ast.AnnotationParser.Start(AnnotationParser.java:33) at org.jboss.annotation.factory.AnnotationCreator$1.run(AnnotationCreator.java:354) at org.jboss.annotation.factory.AnnotationCreator$1.run(AnnotationCreator.java:344) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.jboss.annotation.factory.AnnotationCreator.getRootExpr(AnnotationCreator.java:342) at org.jboss.annotation.factory.AnnotationCreator.getRootExpr(AnnotationCreator.java:330) at org.jboss.annotation.factory.AnnotationCreator.createAnnotation(AnnotationCreator.java:436) at org.jboss.test.managed.factory.test.AbstractManagedObjectFactoryUnitTestCase.testMetaDataRepositoryOverride(AbstractManagedObjectFactoryUnitTestCase.java:163) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira