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As pointed out on core-libs-dev (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-July/042637.html, http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-July/042645.html), the toString output for annotation objects cannot be directly reused as source input if the annotation values are any of:

Strings (no surrounding " characters)
Class values of array classes (uses JVM name)
Arrays (output uses brackets ("[]") rather than braces {"{}")

These shortcomings should be addressed.

csr of

CCC-8162817 Annotation toString output not reusable for source input

relates to

JDK-8227617 Inconsistent handling of short between AnnotationValue.toString and Elements.getConstantExpression

JDK-8163113 langtools repeating annotations tests depend rely on annotations toString output

JDK-8163115 Temporarily problem list javac repeating annotations tests

JDK-8164819 Make javac's toString() on annotation objects consistent with core reflection

JDK-8163231 A couple of runtime tests failing for the -testset hotspot snapshot job

JDK-8168921 Inconsistent Annotation.toString()

JDK-8281462 Annotation toString output for enum not reusable for source input

JDK-5040830 (ann) please improve toString() for annotations containing exception proxies

JDK-8245620 Improve Annotation.annotationType() documentation

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Joe Darcy