Is it a bug that I can resolve an annotation type only when the annotation is declared at top-level?...

# ksp

[Vladimir Tagakov]

Is it a bug that I can resolve an annotation type only when the annotation is declared at top-level? If annotation is nested inside a class it won’t resolve:

val annotation: KSAnnotation = //...
annotation.annotationType.resolve() // only resolves when annotation is not nested in a class

[Jiaxiang]

sounds like a bug to me. can you provide a reproduce? We have tests checking annotations on class members.

[Vladimir Tagakov]

I’m facing that in our project env, it is kinda custom and complex. Let me try to repro it in a simple gradle project. I’ll be back with results.

[Vladimir Tagakov]

It doesn’t repro with a gradle setup and embeddable compiler used for tests 😞 So there is something wrong with ours.

The only difference I can spot is that with gradle for annotation like

class Outer {
  annotation class Nested
}

com.google.devtools.ksp.symbol.KSAnnotation#getShortName returns “Nested” but in our setup it for some reason returns “Outer$Nested”. Maybe it is somehow related to compilation units, but I can’t reproduce it in tests =(

[Jiaxiang]

Thanks for the effort. This kinda reminds me of https://github.com/google/ksp/issues/904, but I will need more time to look into these.

[Vladimir Tagakov]

Yes, I’m also getting this error