[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBMDR-50) Relax the AnnotationCreator string syntax to accept strings in single quotes

[Scott M Stark (JIRA)]

Relax the AnnotationCreator string syntax to accept strings in single quotes
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                 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=@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)


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