I'm trying to read moshi's `@Json` property annota...

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[Tim Abil]

I'm trying to read moshi's @Json property annotation that overrides serialized property names while visiting class properties with DeclarationDescriptorVisitor from declarationChecker{..} . When visitPropertyDescriptor is invoked descriptor.annotations is always empty.

[Tim Abil]

import com.squareup.moshi.Json

data class Sample(
    val a: Color,
    @Json(name="json_name") <-- not visible from declaration checker
    val b: More,
)

[ephemient]

@Json doesn't declare applicable targets (therefore all are allowed): https://square.github.io/moshi/1.x/moshi/moshi/com.squareup.moshi/-json/index.html
which means it'll be treated as @param:Json in this usage by default: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/annotations.html#annotation-use-site-targets

[Tim Abil]

ahh i see, any way to get a reference to those from PropertyDescriptor?

[ephemient]

can you change the code to declare the annotation target explicitly instead? @property:Json(...) val

[Tim Abil]

hmm i might not have the access to change the class definitions tho

[Tim Abil]

i guess i need to somehow be able to access @Documented string

[Tim Abil]

@raulraja thoughts?